The missing of jfxswt.jar indicates that the tool thinks it is seeing a
JDK8 install!

What is your JDK version?

I think i introduce a regression in 1.0.0 in this regard! I've hopefully
fixed it with https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=430447 -
don't know for sure before I've produced the next snapshot build - will
report back once I can confirm this is fixed.

> resolve. On top of that there's a lot of artifacts in the tree and list
> views that don't flush (items render multiple times on top of each
> other). I'm not convinced Java 8 is stable enough for us yet
> (considering as it is we're building an IDE for a logic language that's
> subject to frequent change).
> Thanks!

That's sounds bad - for me FX8 felt much more stable and mature. Does
this also happen in a pure FX or when using FXCanvas only? I don't think
you should wait until this gets fixed by itself but proactively report
this to Oracle by providing a test case.

	@Override
	protected Scene createFxScene() {
		SplitPane queryPage = null;
		
		FXMLLoader fxmlloader = new FXMLLoader(getClass().getResource( "/ravelayout.fxml"));
		try {
//			System.err.println("IS FX Thread? "+Platform.isFxApplicationThread());
			queryPage = (SplitPane) fxmlloader.load();
			queryController = (QueryController) fxmlloader.getController();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} 
		
		Scene scene = new Scene(queryPage);
        scene.getStylesheets().add(getClass().getResource("/ravelayout.css").toString());
        scene.getStylesheets().add(getClass().getResource("/com/sri/sunflower/fxquery/controls/PopupMenu.css").toString());
//        ScenicView.show(scene);
		return scene;
	}

My suggestion is to make use of tycho which fully supports building
JavaFX2.2 apps without modifying your JRE setup.