<AWT Dev> xawt/libmawt.so and headless/libmawt.so

[Phil Race]

The JDK on Unix has since JDK 1.5 defaulted to headless if DISPLAY is unset.
See bug 4890019 for more info.
BTW this discussion probably should be on the 2d-dev list too .. its mostly
an AWT issue but it touches on 2d initialisation too, as half of 
libmawt/libawt is 2D.

-phi.

On 4/21/2011 12:50 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> David Holmes wrote:
>>
>> But the file to be stat'd is OS dependent is it not?
> It looks to me that GraphicsEnvironment.getHeadlessProperty should be 
> consulting platform specific code to determine if we are headless. The 
> Solaris/Linux implementation could check the DISPLAY variable and 
> could also check if the headful toolkit is available.
>
>>
>> Not sure how this use of sub-directories impacts that at all. Surely 
>> within the AWT module (assuming such a beast exists) it can organize 
>> its files how it wants?
> In the module library then AWT's libraries might be located in 
> somewhere like modules/sun.desktop/8.0/lib and it would be best if the 
> VM didn't have any dependency on the location (which in this example 
> includes both the module name and version).
>
> -Alan.