Problems running AppleScript with Java headless argument

Subject: Problems running AppleScript with Java headless argument

From: Alvin Alexander <email@hidden>

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:23:16 -0700 (PDT)

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I'm trying to run some AppleScript commands from a Java application, and everything works fine until I tell the Java application to start up in headless mode with the "-Djava.awt.headless=true" JVM argument. When I do this I get an exception that looks like this:

javax.script.ScriptException: Application is background-only.

at apple.applescript.AppleScriptEngine.evalScript(Native Method)

at apple.applescript.AppleScriptEngine.eval(AppleScriptEngine.java:342)

at apple.applescript.AppleScriptEngine.eval(AppleScriptEngine.java:313)

I'm running the AppleScript commands like this:

ScriptEngineManager mgr = new ScriptEngineManager();

ScriptEngine engine = mgr.getEngineByName("AppleScript");

engine.eval(myAppleScriptCommand);

I'm using Java 1.6.0_20 on Mac OS X 10.6, and again, everything works just fine without the "headless" argument, which I would really like to be able to use, since there is no UI with this app (a speech recognition server).

Thanks,

Alvin Alexander

http://devdaily.com

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