Loading local JavaScript file in WebView in Java 8u60

Question

Until Java 8u51, the following worked fine:

• Have an HTML file containing
• Load this HT

Answer 1

Since Java 8u60, local javascript files referenced in html files are not executed anymore in the WebView. When running the program with an older version, it still works. I found no information that this change in behaviour was intended by Oracle.

As a workaround you can either place the javascript code directly into the HTML file, or load in java the contents of the javascript file into a String and execute it with webView.getEngine().executeScript()