[Info-vax] Developing VMS applications on VMS or on Linux/Windows ?, was: Re: x86 Cross Tools Kit

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/4/2019 2:11 PM, hb wrote:
> On 3/4/19 7:47 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Out of curiosity, does Java on VMS support graphics?
>>
>> It does.
>>
>> Otherwise it would not be Java. AWT and Swing are mandatory parts
>> of Java.
> 
> ... and for Java 8 on OpenVMS you probably noticed this bullet in the
> release notes
> 
> + java.awt.headless system property
>    The system property java.awt.headless defaults to "true" for this
>    release of Java 8 for OpenVMS. For Java applications that use AWT
>    graphical user interface components, it is necessary to explicitly set
>    java.awt.headless to false either via the java command line
>    ("-Djava.awt.headless=false") or programmatically.

I actually totally forgot.

I don't actually run Java GUI apps on VMS.

:-)

Arne