I am very interested too! I mostly use server-side Java on Linux, without a graphics environment, but need to generate Charts using JFreeCharts. Usually when using a propietary JVM, all I have to do is install XOrg shared libraries and set the headless mode = true when starting the Java process. It would be great to have this support with Classpath + free JVM. Regards, Martin Cordova -- Dinamica - RADical J2EE framework open source, easy and powerful http://www.martincordova.com On 6/7/06, Sven de Marothy <sven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > >
