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The Maven JavaFX Application template should use the Maven JavaFX Plugin (see [1] & [2]). There are plenty of advantages: * only this single plugin is required * much better performance ** the current pom packs everything into a single .jar, which is very time consuming * much better robustness ** packing everything into a single .jar is error-prone ** the current pom does all kinds of modifications of the classpath to add jfxrt.jar to it ** the current pom uses the now obsolete javafxpackager ** the current project requires customizations of the Run/Debug actions (in nbactions.xml file) This is the whole <build> section of my current pom: <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>com.zenjava</groupId> <artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>8.1.2</version> <configuration> <mainClass>my.MainClass</mainClass> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> The only tricky part may be how to select the right version of the plugin, based on the JDK used for the project (see [2], under "Support for 8u20"). (1) http://zenjava.com/javafx/maven/ (2) http://speling.shemnon.com/blog/2014/09/12/maven-javafx-plugin-8-dot-1-released/
The fundamental problem with the current template, is that it's built to work with Java 7. I think a Maven JavaFX project should require a Java 8 platform. This would allow to greatly simplify the POM template. Contrary to what I said in my first comment, I don't think it should use the Maven JavaFX Plugin. The current POM is ok, but the invocation of javafxpackager should be replaced with an invocation of javapackager. Also the "unpack-dependencies" part should be eliminated: it's extremely time-consuming to do on each build & is not necessary either: with Java 8 you can just do "java MainApp" (where MainApp extends javafx.application.Application & does not have a main() method), as with any other class. This also means there should be no need for a special nbactions.xml file. Also there should be no main() method in the generated JavaFX Application class (see bug 249887).