Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:23:26 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tomcat, JBoss etc. Should be headless? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0403301821270.19442@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <xzpn05y48am.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20040330123932.R1592@lizacnet.demon.co.uk> <xzpn05y48am.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Mark Dixon <mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> writes: > > Given that these server type java ports run as daemon processes in the > > backgroundm wouldn't it be wise to start them up with > > -Djava.awt.headless=3Dtrue set? > > What exactly would be the point? The AWT canvas & related classes are (supposedly) available for the dynamic generation of graphics, without needing an X server somewhere. It's a fairly specialist case but I've had to do this for deployed servlets in the past*. jan * Deployed on Solaris in that case, but that's irrelevant here. --=20 jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ You know something's gone badly wrong when your algorithm takes O(n^2) time but uses O(2^n) space.
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