Dimitris Vyzovitis wrote:
>
> Rachel Greenham wrote:
>
> >
> > > This is not absolutely true.
> > > There are case where your dynamic content includes generated/altered
> > > images.
> > > You need X for awt/java2D to work.
> >
> > Yes, this is true. Luckily I haven't needed this once. We tried to write
> > software to manipulate images without a window on the screen. Basically
> > impossible. :-(
>
> Yes, it is really ugly ;-}
> Although you will have to do it anyway for processing ( awt/java2D don't
> provide any extraordinary kind of functionality for image processing ),
> developing the codecs from scratch is a real burden.
> Nathan's suggestion about Xvfb is really appealing in this case!
And terribly original :-). You'll find the suggestion in the second
paragraph on the Xvfb man page.
Nathan
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