> very surprising. well, should that make us think about using > jai? That would certainly solve the problem (hey, why am i > getting this 'ol microsoft fealing?), but i tried using jai > with linux, and i got stranded becouse it starts looking for > an x service (why???), and wouldn't find it even though it > was there. These problems don't exist on windows.
Some of the things work with jai (like scaling). See org.mmbase.module.builders.ConvertJAI for the functionality. The java.awt.* implementation of SUN required a windowmanager. To manipulate images the class java.awt.Image is used. On windows you have a windowmanager running when windows start. The Xserver is the windowmanager for linux. Java 1.4 has an option (-Djava.awt.headless=true) to use the java.awt package without a windowmanager. IIRC the debatplaats is running with this option. Nico
