e(fx)clipse 3.11 released

[tomsontom]

It's been a long time but we finally released a new version of e(fx)clipse who is based on the 2024-12 release of the Eclipse Platform!

This means if you want to upgrade you have to make the javax/jakarta switch in your custom code. You can get the new target platform at https://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/runtime-released/3.11.0/

I'd like to thank @ShawnKleese and https://www.ituv-software.de/ for sponsoring the Platform Update!

[StephFo]

Hello Tom,
Thank you very much for this efxclipse release. In addition, I've tried to install efxclipse tooling 3.11.0 into Eclipse Modeling 2025-09 (from https://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/updates-released/3.11.0/repository/) and it fails with this error:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  Software being installed: e(fx)clipse - IDE - CSS 3.11.0.202510151527 (org.eclipse.fx.ide.css.feature.feature.group 3.11.0.202510151527)
  Missing requirement: Core (=none UI) components 3.11.0.202510151515 (org.eclipse.fx.core 3.11.0.202510151515) requires 'osgi.bundle; com.sun.xml.bind.jaxb-core 0.0.0' but it could not be found
  Cannot satisfy dependency:
    From: e(fx)clipse - IDE - Basic 3.11.0.202510151527 (org.eclipse.fx.ide.basic.feature.feature.group 3.11.0.202510151527)
    To: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu; org.eclipse.fx.core [3.11.0.202510151515,3.11.0.202510151515]
  Cannot satisfy dependency:
    From: e(fx)clipse - IDE - CSS 3.11.0.202510151527 (org.eclipse.fx.ide.css.feature.feature.group 3.11.0.202510151527)
    To: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu; org.eclipse.fx.ide.basic.feature.feature.group 0.0.0, filter=(!(org.eclipse.equinox.p2.exclude.import=true))

Same issue using nightly build :https://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/updates-nightly/repository/

Do you have any idea ?

Please note Tooling release 3.9.0 (2022) is installing and running OK into Eclipse IDE Modeling distro/package 2025-06 and 2025-09.

By the way it may be not the right place to discuss about tooling but I've not found the discussion page on https://github.com/eclipse-efx/efxclipse-eclipse.

Again, thank you very much for efxclipse committers, e4 RCP - JavaFX apps are still alive and having support / updates are very much appreciated.

Stéphane.

[tomsontom]

@martinbluehweis do you have an idea why this happens?

[martinbluehweis]

before we released I tested installing the nightly into an eclipse 25-09 (not sure which download package, but usually I use the one for eclipse committers).

now I tested again:

• works with eclipse committers package
• does not work with modeling package

@StephFo so using another eclipse package could be a workaround for now - please let us know if you can do so.

@tomsontom in the end it's a dependency issue - something we need is not contained in the downloaded package. next time I better use a minimal package to test ...

[StephFo]

Hello,
I will give it a try then re-adding modeling features.
I let you know tomorrow.

[martinbluehweis]

@StephFo after some investigation we found the difference:

the committers package initially(!) provides one more update site: "Eclipse IDE integration for Maven" https://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases/latest
if you add it in Window -> Preferences -> Install/Update -> Available Software Sites you can install efxclipse 3.11 from the official update site also in the Modeling package.
(those update sites are used to resolve dependencies in the installation process)

[StephFo]

Hi,
I can confirm it is now installed ok after adding this update site.

Thank you for your support

[StephFo]

It's been a long time but we finally released a new version of e(fx)clipse who is based on the 2024-12 release of the Eclipse Platform!

This means if you want to upgrade you have to make the javax/jakarta switch in your custom code. You can get the new target platform at https://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/runtime-released/3.11.0/

I'd like to thank @ShawnKleese and https://www.ituv-software.de/ for sponsoring the Platform Update!

Hi,
I'm facing troubles on macOS Tahoe 26.1 when launching my app with OpenJDK Temurin 21.0.9 + EFX 3.11 + JavaFX > 21.0.1 when my app (built with Tycho 5) is launched by a double click on generated application i.e. myApp.app.
The application starts with the splash screen then nothing is displayed apart from spinning cursor wheel as soon as I use JavaFX 21.0.2 up to 21.0.9.
With JavaFX 21.0.1 or JavaFX 17.0.17, no problem.

From Eclipse IDE, everything runs smoothly whatever the version of javafx is.

I'm wondering if it is linked to this ticket : https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319066

Before reporting a ticket at https://bugs.openjdk.org I would appreciate some feedbacks from other developers developing e4 RPC with e(fx)clipse 3.11 on macOS.

Regards,
Stephane

[tomsontom]

I thought for osx we had this special launcher so that we don't start on the main thread.

[StephFo]

Yes I've remembered this class since you told me some years ago, we have to use it to get a successful E4 + EFX app start from macOS dock.
It seems it is now broken with latest OpenJFX version.

[tomsontom]

Ok let me see if I can find some time to investigate this and see what solution we have to get this fixed. If you don't get feedback until next week feel free to ping me.

[StephFo]

Thank you very much Tom.

[StephFo]

Ok let me see if I can find some time to investigate this and see what solution we have to get this fixed. If you don't get feedback until next week feel free to ping me.

Hi Tom,
Did you have any chance to get a look at the issue please ?

Thank you again for your support