Monocle with VNC for Jenkins [was: Re: openjfx/8u-dev/rt: RT-35441 [Monocle] Provide a VNC back-end]

[Tom Eugelink]

https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35473


On 2014-1-22 14:41, Daniel Blaukopf wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> You have it right. Currently the VNC server is always running on port 5901, but feel free to open a JIRA to change that.
>
> If you want to test this today you need to build OpenJFX yourself (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX). We don’t have snapshots of 8u20 on java.net yet, although I hope we will soon.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org> wrote:
>
>> What also is very interesting is headless testing. Let me see if I'm getting this.
>>
>> Normally Jenkins would start a VNC server (xvnc), which provides some kind of graphics API against which an UI program can paint. JavaFX is not picking that up however.
>> But, as I read it, in this case JavaFX starts its own VNC server, so it takes of everything itself. All one would need to do is specify the
>>
>> 	-Dglass.platform=Monocle -Dmonocle.platform=VNC -Dprism.order=sw
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>> And additionally a port to run the VNC server on (so multiple Jenkins jobs don't interfere).
>>
>> Am I correct? How can I test this (aka in which version is the VNC server available)?
>>
>> Tom
>>
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