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This came somewhat as an anti-climax.

Suitably impressed (and also inspired) by Using FEST-Swing to discover (via testing) what’s under the hood of JavaFX - I decided to give JavaFX a try with Marathon. This is the way I went about it:

1. Since Marathon can’t (yet) support any JavaFX controls, I searched around and found some examples that purely use swing components from here. They are pretty simple, since I don’t know JavaFX - I can’t make any thing more complicated work.
2. Next is to find the java command line used by javafx when an application is launched. Atleast on OSX it is a shell script. I just modified it and added an ‘echo’ to print out the command line.
3. From the command line, I get a ton of jars.
4. Next is to create a Marathon project. That is simple enough. I set all these jars into the class path and give the main class and save the project.
5. Record a test case - and it works!!!

What does this mean? If you use only Swing components and develop a JavaFX application, Marathon can be used to test it. But, whatever I have seen on the net - it looks like there is going to be proliferation of JavaFX controls. At a quick glance, it looks like Marathon should at least handle SGControl’s for it to be more useful. I will have a look into it soon.

Meanwhile, if anyone can point me to some good JavaFX/Swing application - I would like to give it a try.

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