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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.


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