I'd look at permissions for the 'user' that the servlet engine is running under.
If you SU to that user, can you open an xterm?
Normally I would expect the display variable to be :0.0.
What happens if you write a wrapper to invoke the GIF creation function in the
servlet and run it outside
I ran into a similar problem once.
The problem you are running into is that the Image classes in the Java package
make use of the java.awt.Toolkit. For that class to work correctly, it has to
connect to a graphics system (i.e. X ). Since Windows 'always' has a graphics
engine running, it
