How would an SWT developer accept new "open document" file double-clicks, or 
listen for sleep/wake events? AFAIK, eAWT is the only aperture that handles 
that right now.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Apple Inc.

On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Headless mode works fine for SWT.  SWT doesn't use eAWT to do Quit etc.  
> Instead, it uses the appropriate native cocoa calls.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 05/04/2012 11:23 AM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
>> On 04/05/12 19:07, Mike Swingler wrote:
>>>> Please review a fix for 
>>>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7159266 at:
>>>> 
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~anthony/7u6-4-fxHang-7159266.0/
>>>> 
>>>> With this fix we avoid setting an application delegate when AWT is started 
>>>> in the headless mode. This prevents a hang when another GUI toolkit (e.g. 
>>>> JavaFX) is already running in the same Java process.
>>> 
>>> This would logically mean that you won't get eAWT events (file open, quit, 
>>> etc) while started in this mode. Does this impact SWT as well?
>> 
>> In the headless mode an application doesn't have any UI, and as such there's 
>> no way to generate e.g. a Quit action. Hence the application delegate isn't 
>> necessary in this mode.
>> 
>> SWT uses a special "SWT mode" (== -XstartOnFirstThread) which is different 
>> from the headless mode. In the SWT mode the delegate will still be installed.
>> 
>> I think this may not work in case of running an SWT application together 
>> with the AWT in headless mode. However, I can't imagine who might want to 
>> run SWT/AWT in such configuration because the headless mode is supposed to 
>> be primarily used in server environments where a display is physically 
>> unavailable, in which case SWT wouldn't be able to run there either.
>> 
>> -- 
>> best regards,
>> Anthony

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