[jboss-as7-dev] Changed arguments…can we do better ? :P

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On Feb 1, 2012, at 13:04, Stephen Coy wrote:

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> On 01/02/2012, at 10:38 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
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>> Does the -Djava.awt.headless=true have any function besides maybe give a few milliseconds faster startup ?
> 
> I don't know about other platforms, but on a Mac the presence of this flag prevents the creation of a dock icon and application menu bar. 

That only happens if your app doesn't have a console (i.e. not started on command line or started via some other external script) afaik.

> Normally we don't want to see this when running a server.


Yes, its an annoying behavior OSX has here for non-console run apps for which ./standalone -Djava.awt.headless=true is the best way to 
use when running without console.

So yeah for that it makes sense to have it default I guess.

Any other reasons?

/max
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