From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 09:41:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C5716A4CE; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:41:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8785443D2D; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:41:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 352C85309; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:41:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id BE75B5308; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:40:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 6D12433CAA; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:40:50 +0200 (CEST) To: Jan Grant References: <20040330123932.R1592@lizacnet.demon.co.uk> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:40:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Jan Grant's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:23:26 +0100 (BST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: Mark Dixon cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tomcat, JBoss etc. Should be headless? X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:41:10 -0000 Jan Grant writes: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > > Mark Dixon 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. In that case, isn't the onus on the application developer to make sure at runtime that awt knows to run headless? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no