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Isn't it funny how the Java VM on Solaris doesn't have that problem, but the
version on Linux does? Hey, isn't JavaSoft owned by Sun ;-)
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Lahens
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 12:53 PM
> To: Java Apache Users; Java Apache Users
> Subject: RE: Servlets Rendering to a Frame....
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> Interesting thing to know... I've been running all of my servlets on
> Solaris servers with lots of memory and never encountered any of these
> issues. To me it has always been a simple thing to do..
>
> Thanks for the education on how awt.* works on Linux.. I'll keep that in
> mind if I'm ever doing a site for that OS.
>
> -Greg
>
> At 12:09 PM 10/18/00 -0700, Bill Volk wrote:
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> >Greg wrote:
> >
> > > OK. What on earth is this all about? It sounds like you're trying
> > > to have a
> > > servlet render graphics to send to a web page or program
> waiting for the
> > > graphic? If this is what you are trying to do, then there's no
> > > need for X.
> > > X has nothing to do with it at all. Just use the graphics library
> > > (awt.graphics???) to draw into a virtual object then gif
> encode it then
> > > send the bytes to the response stream...
> >
> >Yes, but that doesn't work. Seems like the Java VM under Linux
> NEEDS X to
> >do any rendering whatsoever. That's what the docs says.
> >
> > When no X11 Display is available on UNIX machines or when
> GDI resources
> >are low
> > on Windows, it is impossible to compute off-screen images with
> > java.awt.Graphics methods, even if your program doesn't
> need to display
> >these
> > images. Typically, this situation happens for servlets returning
> >dynamically
> > generated images like pies, charts or web counters.
> >
> >You can't write to a frame without having X ... or some
> substitute running.
> >Yep. That's the truth.
> >
> > > Other than that, I'm not sure what you're asking. Please be more clear
> > > about the goal you are trying to accomplish, setting,
> > > environment, and type
> > > of application...
> >
> >We're compositing images on the server to display on the
> client's web page.
> >Basically overlays etc...
> >
> >Bill Volk
> >
> >>
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