Building a Multiplatform SDKMAN in JavaFX
summary
A native SDKMAN GUI is implemented with JavaFX, compiled to GraalVM native images and packaged via Gluon plugins; a working Windows/Linux/macOS app is produced and distributed with GitHub Actions and JReleaser into four platform artifacts. Build requires heavy native toolchains (Windows Visual Studio ~10 GB), an agent to generate reflect-config.json per OS, and some manual copying for OS-specific native-image resources. Measured startup is 500 ms startup versus ~2 s for fat jar, and a hello world image is ~12 MB native image; Gluon JDK required for JavaFX native builds.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25What is SDKMAN
- 1:53Background
- 3:46SDKMAN Demo
- 5:35Hello World Example
- 6:20Packages
- 13:40Windows
- 15:25Reflection
- 20:19JavaFX
- 23:58Troubleshooting
- 28:46Adding a download
- 34:27Creating UI
- 35:01Automating Release
- 39:27Conclusion
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