You can’t use a java.awt.Color in WebObjects, because to use AWT at all on OS X requires connection to the WindowServer. And unless you’re mad, you probably aren’t running your WOA as root. This means I can’t do things like, ooh, I don’t know, making a PDF table have a white border instead of a black one.
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really? I don’t do WebObjects, but I’ve been using java.awt stuff without a connection to the WindowServer by using:
java.awt.headless=true
when launching Tomcat.
Does this not work?
Hmmm…it’s no longer my web app to care about, but that probably would work. The point is that it’s senseless; the java.awt.Color class just defines a colourspace (in this case, sRGB) and a colour, none of which needs to talk to a graphical environment. It’s not like I want to draw a line…