Request: Rebuild to work with updated java versions

[thegreatersea]

Although I managed to build a jar application of this repository with help from a friend, it came with the warning that it would only work with Java 1.8.0_05, which is massively out of date, and that installing that Java version would break at least a few things that use newer Java versions. Is there any way to update this project to use the latest version of Java?

[VladFurman]

I'm poking at this; there's multiple issues standing in the way. See https://github.com/VladFurman/anathema_legacy/tree/test for progress as of now. For anyone who might help, or follow my trail:

• Anathema depends on javafx, which is not always included in all distributions of java. This isn't something you can change in the project itself, but rather what java you use.

• At some point (around JDK 8.5-something) com.sun.javafx.Utils was moved to com.sun.javafx.utils.Utils. This breaks controlsFX - see Platform_FX/build.gradle and specifically
  compile 'org.controlsfx:controlsfx:8.40.18'. So to update Java, you'd need to update controlsFx, but...

• controlsFx deprecated the 'Dialog' Class. There's about 6 or so files using it, so they all have to be refactored.

• And this is only what I've found so far.

I've put about 7 hours into this so far; I'm not confident my findings are correct. If anyone has suggestions, corrections, advice, please add them.