tomcat, JBoss etc. Should be headless?

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

Jan Grant <Jan.Grant at bristol.ac.uk> writes:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > Mark Dixon <mark at 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=true 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?

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