vZome Online Development Workflow

See online/README.md

vZome desktop Development Workflow

See desktop/README.md

vZome will now build and run from the gradle command line with either Java 8 or Java 9.

I have not tried using Java 9 in Eclipse or NetBeans yet. Nor have I researched or evaluated the behavior of Windows launch4J with Java 9.

Either option requires a local installation of the appropriate jdk with the JAVA_HOME environment variable set appropriately.

Note that the JVM argument -Djava.ext.dirs is not supported by Java 9, so it has been removed from the build script. It was previously used for the Java 8 build. I have not seen any problem on Windows since removing it, but Scott will need to determine if there is any impact on integration with the Mac.

Java 8

• Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to a valid Java 8 path: For example, in Windows, from the command line: set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_162
• Edit these two lines in build.gradle: sourceCompatibility = 1.8 targetCompatibility = 1.8
• gradle run

Java 9

• Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to a valid Java 8 path: For example, in Windows, from the command line: set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-9.0.4
• Edit these two lines in build.gradle: sourceCompatibility = 9 targetCompatibility = 9
• gradle run Java 9 generates the following run-time warning which can safely be ignored, but should be addressed ASAP.

WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.vorthmann.zome.ui.ApplicationUI (file:/C:/Users/me/Documents/GitHub/vzome/desktop/build/classes/java/main/) to field java.util.logging.FileHandler.files WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.vorthmann.zome.ui.ApplicationUI WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release