Packaging JavaFX Applications

You can package your JavaFX application by building the corresponding artifact. For JavaFX applications, IntelliJ IDEA provides a dedicated artifact type (JavaFx Application). One JavaFx Application artifact configuration is created by IntelliJ IDEA automatically if you create a project as described in Creating a project for JavaFX application development from scratch.

Alternatively, you can generate an Ant build file, and then use that build file to package your application.

• Building an artifact
• Generating and using an Ant build file

See also, Applications with a Preloader: Project Organization and Packaging.

Building an artifact

To build an artifact for your JavaFX application:

• Select Build | Build Artifacts. Then, in the Build Artifacts | Action popup, select the artifact and select Build.
• Alternatively, you can turn on the Build on make option in the artifact configuration. In that case, an artifact will be built when making the project (e.g. Build | Make Project or ⌘F9 or ⌘F9⌘F9 or ⌘F9⌘B or ⌘BF7, F7 or F7^ F9, ⌃F9 or ⌃F9).

By default, the artifact is generated in <project_folder>\out\artifacts\<artifact_name>.

See also, Configuring Artifacts, Artifacts and Java FX Tab.

Generating and using an Ant build file

1. Generate an Ant build file for your project (Build | Generate Ant Build). For more information, see Generating Ant Build File.
2. Make the necessary changes to the generated build file.
3. Open the Ant Build tool window (e.g. View | Tool Windows | Ant Build), specify the build file to be used and run the necessary target. For more information, see Executing Ant Target.

See also, Ant.