DISPLAY variable needed for Filling a report?

[Hauptlorenz]

Hello out there,

 

I generated a nice report with iReport and now

I want to use a litte java program to generate reports in "batch" on a linux server. I

coded this little piece of snippet:

 

import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.*;

import java.util.HashMap;

public class runReport

{

public static void main(String[] args)

{

JasperReport jasperReport;

JasperPrint jasperPrint;

try

{

jasperReport = JasperCompileManager.compileReport(

"../hrmodul/Jobs.jrxml");

jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(

jasperReport, new HashMap(), new JREmptyDataSource());

JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfFile(

jasperPrint, "../hrmodul/simple_report.pdf");

}

catch (JRException e)

{

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

}

 

And there is the problem, it throws me an exception in line with the FillManager:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.

at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)

at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.<clinit>(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:175)

at java.lang.Class.forName1(Native Method)

at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:180)

at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:91)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRGraphEnvInitializer.initializeGraphEnv(JRGraphEnvInitializer.java:58)

 

and so on...

 

What is this? I don't want to SHOW the report.

 

Many thanks.

Frank

[Teodor Danciu]

Hi,

 

Even if you are not showing the report, JR would still use AWT to do the layout and calculations and needs fonts metrics and staff.

So you either install and X-server or use JDK with the -Djava.awt.headless=true option (requires JDK > 1.4) or use other solutions such as Xvfb or PJA.

 

I hope this helps.

Teodor

[Hauptlorenz]

Hi Teodor,

 

yes, this -D option does work. Has this any other "bad" effects?

 

Thank you very much,

Frank

[bklawans]

The -djava.awt.headless=true option still uses the X11 libraries, it just doesn't require a running X server. The end results are the same

 

No bad effects that I have encountered. I imagine it uses a bit more memory, since the font metrics, etc are loaded into it via the Xlib instead of being retained on the X server. Just a guess though.

 

-Barry