javafx-archetype-simple fails to compile

[jtdevos]

According to the "Getting Started with JavaFX" documentation, I can use maven to generate a simple JavaFX project with the following command:

mvn archetype:generate \
    -DarchetypeGroupId=org.openjfx \
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=javafx-archetype-simple \
    -DarchetypeVersion=0.0.3 \
    -DgroupId=org.openjfx \
    -DartifactId=sample \
    -Dversion=1.0.0 \
    -Djavafx-version=17

While this command does appear to generate some project files, the resulting project does not compile. Here is the output from the mvn compile command:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.0:compile (default-compile) on project sample: Compilation failure: Compilation failure:
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[3,26] package javafx.application does not exist
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[4,20] package javafx.scene does not exist
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[5,28] package javafx.scene.control does not exist
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[6,27] package javafx.scene.layout does not exist
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[7,20] package javafx.stage does not exist
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[13,26] cannot find symbol
[ERROR]   symbol: class Application
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[16,23] cannot find symbol
[ERROR]   symbol:   class Stage
[ERROR]   location: class org.openjfx.App
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[15,5] method does not override or implement a method from a supertype
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[20,25] cannot find symbol
[ERROR]   symbol:   class Label
[ERROR]   location: class org.openjfx.App
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[21,25] cannot find symbol
[ERROR]   symbol:   class Scene
[ERROR]   location: class org.openjfx.App
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[21,35] cannot find symbol
[ERROR]   symbol:   class StackPane
[ERROR]   location: class org.openjfx.App
[ERROR] /C:/Users/nobodyman/develop/scratch/sample/src/main/java/org/openjfx/App.java:[27,9] cannot find symbol
[ERROR]   symbol:   method launch()
[ERROR]   location: class org.openjfx.App
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

Some environment details:
OS: Windows 10 Home 19043.1237
Maven: v3.8.2
JDK: Amazon Coretto jdk17.0.0_35

[eliocapelati]

Hello @nobodyman,

I got the same error, and during some investigation, I found that javafx-version=16 is working.

I definitely couldn't get it to work with javafx-version 17. (And there's no running example using it here: https://github.com/openjfx/samples)

I've tried with JDK from 11 to 17.

My env:
OS: Mac OS 10.15.7
Maven: Apache Maven 3.8.3 (ff8e977a158738155dc465c6a97ffaf31982d739)
JDK: ["openjdk version "11.0.2" 2019-01-15", "openjdk version "17" 2021-09-14"]

[Oliver-Loeffler]

Interestingly it also works with JavaFX17 when module-info.java is deleted.

[TyPh00nCdr]

Upgrade org.openjfx:javafx-controls to version 17.0.1 in the pom.xml.