April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Prior to Java 9, JavaFX controls as well as CSS functionality were only available to developers by interfacing with internal APIs. Java 9's modularization has made the internal APIs inaccessible. Therefore, JEP 253 was created to define public, instead of internal, APIs.
This was a larger undertaking than it might seem. Here are a few actions that were taken as part of this JEP:
The following classes were moved from internal packages to a public javafx.scene.control.skin package:
| AccordionSkin | ButtonBarSkin | ButtonSkin | CellSkinBase |
| CheckBoxSkin | ChoiceBoxSkin | ColorPickerSkin ... |