[TIKA-386] Tika relies on X11

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Component/s: parser

Environment

RHEL 5.1, JRE 1.6

• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Kenny Neal
• Created: 02/Mar/10 21:55
• Updated: 09/Mar/10 22:59
• Resolved: 09/Mar/10 22:59

Description

I am receiving the following error when I try to process some rtf documents:

Mar 02 2010 15:17:34 ERROR [Thread-10] (DefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler.java:14) com.sprt.jawen.DefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler - Thread [Thread-10] will terminal execution due to an uncaught exception:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class sun.awt.X11.XToolkit
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Toolkit.getEventQueue(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.isDispatchThread(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.isEventDispatchThread(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.text.StyleContext.reclaim(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.text.StyleContext.addAttribute(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.text.StyleContext$NamedStyle.addAttribute(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.text.StyleContext$NamedStyle.setName(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.text.StyleContext$NamedStyle.<init>(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.text.StyleContext.addStyle(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.text.StyleContext.<init>(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.text.DefaultStyledDocument.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.tika.parser.rtf.RTFParser.parse(RTFParser.java:44)

I do not have a gui in this application. Do I have to for the RTF Parser to work? I searched the existing issues and didn't see this one being reported by anyone else.

Googling seems to indicate a possible work around... Adding a JRE parameter of -Djava.awt.headless=true Is this the only way to resolve this?