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Overview

JavaFX uses JIRA as its bug tracking database. Our JIRA instance can be found at http://javafx-jira.kenai.com.

The most important thing you can do when entering a bug report is to ensure that the person who investigates it has enough information to recreate it.  The best way to ensure this is to provide:

• a complete code sample
• a set of steps (numbered is best)

Fortunately, JavaFX programs tend to be very short to providing a complete example, including main() is not particularly difficult.  Certainly no code is released without a test case that demonstrates the problem and that the problem is gone as a result of the fix.  By numbering the steps in a description and stating what you should see at each step, it helps to focus the reader.  Of course, not all problems can be described in this manner but a surprising amount can.

IMPORTANT:  Bugs that are missing the information needed to recreate them will be closed as 'Incomplete'.  The message that you should take away from this is "there is more work to do before this bug can be processed" and not "we do not care that there is a problem".

Project

Use the Runtime project for FX bugs.  This is the default.

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