Hi Sven,
Thank you for the update on the status quo of both Java2D and
ImageIO. And great to hear that work is currently done for this.
I wonder about ImageIO through ImageMagick though. Are you sure that
there is no code for this so far? I saw it mentioned here, and from
what I read it sounds like it's already working:
http://developer.classpath.org/doc/javax/imageio/package-summary.html
And how much more time do you think will be needed for the Java2D
stuff to work completely headless?
Is there anything I could help with?
Jürg
Am 07.06.2006 um 14:20 schrieb Sven de Marothy:
Hello Juerg,
I wonder: Does Java2D and ImageIO work on Unix without an X Server
installed, e.g. in a server environment or on OS X? If so: How do I
need to compile?
Roman has been doing some work on this, however it's not ready for
production use yet, AFAIK. The existing Java2D on Cairo peers will
probably be able to work headless. They don't at this very moment
though. The main remaining dependency on GTK for headless is for
fonts,
but I'm actually working on removing that right now.
And what is the situation on Windows?
Same as above. (The Cairo libs used for offscreen drawing are portable
and shouldn't have any problems under Windows.)
I read somewhere that ImageIO by default is based on ImageMagick. Is
this mature, does it work well?
This is planned, but hasn't been implmented yet. At the moment there's
an ImageIO plugin based on GdkPixbuf and a pure-java BMP plugin, and a
JPEG one in the works.
So, we're not quite there yet. But since you've shown interest, I'll
keep it in mind and see what I can do once we're finished with this
overhaul. Most of the code is there, it's mostly just the font stuff
and then cleaning up the dependencies to allow for headless.
/Sven
