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wimdeblauwe / August 26, 2017

In this post, I am going to detail the steps to get a simple JavaFX application running on the
Raspberry Pi 3 using Gluon.

Hardware
For this setup, I used the Raspberry Pi 3 with the o cial 7″ touchscreen connected.

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First o , download Raspbian from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/. I

chose the “RASPBIAN STRETCH WITH DESKTOP” version and burned it on an SD-card using
Etcher.

Insert the SD-card in the Raspberry Pi and let it boot. The screen should look like this when
done:

Find out the IP address of the Raspberry Pi by running ifconfig on the Pi itself or looking
at the DHCP clients list of your router.

Enable SSH to be able to easily copy les to the Raspberry Pi. See the o cial instructions
on how to do that.

Installation of Java
Download the ‘Linux ARM 32 Hard Float ABI’ Java SE Development kit from the Oracle
website. I downloaded jdk-8u144-linux-arm32-vfp-hflt.tar.gz.

Copy it to the device using SCP:

1 scp jdk-8u144-linux-arm32-vfp-hflt.tar.gz [email protected]:

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Move the JDK to a location of your choice. I choose /opt and also created a symbolic link
for future updates:

1 sudo mv ./jdk1.8.0_144/ /opt/

2 sudo ln -s /opt/jdk1.8.0_144/ /opt/jdk8

Check if Java works by checking the version of the java executable:

1 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/jdk8/bin/java -version

2 java version "1.8.0_144"
3 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_144-b01)
4 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.144-b01, mixed mode)

Installation of JavaFX
Although Java 8 contains JavaFX by default, it does not contain what is needed to have
JavaFX applications running on the Raspberry Pi. For this, you need the Gluon JavaFX
Embedded SDK. Download it from http://gluonhq.com/products/mobile/javafxports/get/

Copy it to the Pi:

1 scp armv6hf-sdk-8.60.9.zip [email protected]:

On the Pi itself, unzip it and copy the unzipped les onto the just installed Java SDK. Take
note of what parts need to be copied where!

1 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ unzip armv6hf-sdk-8.60.9.zip

2 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cp armv6hf-sdk/rt/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar /opt/jdk8/jre/li
3 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cp armv6hf-sdk/rt/lib/arm/* /opt/jdk8/jre/lib/arm/
4 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cp armv6hf-sdk/rt/lib/javafx.platform.properties /op
5 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cp armv6hf-sdk/rt/lib/javafx.properties /opt/jdk8/jr
6 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cp armv6hf-sdk/rt/lib/jfxswt.jar /opt/jdk8/jre/lib/

Running a JavaFX application

Just to get started with a very simple JavaFX application, we will take one of the javafxports
samples. First clone the repository at https://bitbucket.org/javafxports/samples

Build the HelloWorld sample using

1 ./gradlew :HelloWorld:build

Copy the created jar le to the Raspberry Pi:

1 scp HelloWorld/build/libs/HelloWorld.jar [email protected]:

Now open a terminal on the Raspberry Pi itself and start the application:

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Now you have JavaFX running on the Raspberry Pi:

There is no exit implemented in the demo application, so you have to kill it over SSH to
stop it.

Conclusion
We saw how get a JavaFX application running on the Raspberry Pi 3 hardware using the
Gluon JavaFX Embedded SDK. I will explain how I combined JavaFX with Spring Boot for a
real fun programming stack in a future post.

This know-how originated during the development of a PegusApps project.

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letroll December 6, 2017 at 18:42

Maybe you must use sudo because your current user have not right on /opt/jdk8/bin/java?

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nassim February 4, 2018 at 15:04

All steps done, it doesn’t work

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wimdeblauwe February 4, 2018 at 19:48

You might want to ask a question on stackover ow.com to get somebody to help you
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Thanks for the tip!

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