Remotely installing Servoy App Server under Solaris 8

Classic Servoy
1

Here’s my attempt to install the Servoy Application Server
on my Sun Sparc box running Solaris 8:

ca1$ java -version
java version "1.4.2_06"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_06-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_06-b03, mixed mode)
ca1$ 
ca1$ ls -l
total 29008
-rw-r--r--    1 gregb    laserlab 29674321 Jan 14 00:25 servoy_installer.jar
ca1$ 
ca1$ java -jar servoy_installer.jar
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:134)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141)
        at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:62)
        at java.awt.Font.initializeFont(Font.java:308)
        at java.awt.Font.<init>(Font.java:344)
        at javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource.<init>(FontUIResource.java:36)
        at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel.initComponentDefaults(MotifLookAndFeel.java:181)
        at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel.getDefaults(BasicLookAndFeel.java:81)
        at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:394)
        at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:424)
        at com.izforge.izpack.installer.GUIInstaller.loadLookAndFeel(GUIInstaller.java:222)
        at com.izforge.izpack.installer.GUIInstaller.<init>(GUIInstaller.java:101)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:308)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261)
        at com.izforge.izpack.installer.Installer.main(Installer.java:47)
ca1$

I’m using SecureCRT from Van Dyke for my SSH connection.
I have X11 packet forwarding turned on in SecureCRT.
I don’t think I have any X11 software running on my local machine
(Windows XP Home SP2).
What is the easiest/cheapest way to get X11 running under Windows XP
and configured to work with the Servoy Installer?

Any help appreciated.

2

What is the easiest/cheapest way to get X11 running under Windows XP
and configured to work with the Servoy Installer?

Try VNC. It is free (GPL) and basically gives you an X window to your unix/linux boc. You can get it here http://www.realvnc.com/

Note that you do need to install some code on the server. It’s all java (I think) so platform issues should be minimal.

Of course, you can also start the Servoy server from the command line and use the web interface to admin most of it. It’s just not as pretty.