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Subject: Re: tomcat, JBoss etc. Should be headless?
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Mark Dixon <mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> writes:
> In the current situation, taking tomcat as an example, the JVM
> starts up with daemonctl from /usr/local/etc/rc.d into an
> environment with no X server, provided there's been no editing of
> the scripts.  Any attempt to use the graphics libraries in any
> servlet will result in the servlet falling over with an AWTError.

That is IMHO a bug in the servlet, which is easily fixed by adding the
following line in the appropriate place:

          System.setProperty("java.awt.headless", "true");

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