The new JTable printing API (final putback awaiting approval) should support printing in headless mode. While trying to test against the Swing workspace, printing failed every time with a hotspot error. On discovering this, I wrote up a simple test case that does nothing more than try to print 10 pages to a file (test case attached).

The test should be run with the flag -Djava.awt.headless=true

When run against 1.4.2, the test succeeds.

When run against 1.5.0 b23 it fails with the following stack trace:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid Image variant
        at sun.awt.image.SurfaceManager.getManager(SurfaceManager.java:47)
        at sun.java2d.SurfaceData.getDestSurfaceData(SurfaceData.java:112)
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.createGraphics(SunGraphicsEnvironme
nt.java:327)
        at sun.java2d.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.createGraphics(HeadlessGraphic
sEnvironment.java:77)
        at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.createGraphics(BufferedImage.java:1055)
        at sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.printPage(RasterPrinterJob.java:1619)
        at sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.print(RasterPrinterJob.java:1204)
        at HeadlessPrintingTest.main(HeadlessPrintingTest.java:30)

When run against the current Swing workspace, it produces a hotspot error with the following text, and a hotpot error log which is attached:

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#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x6d61cebc, pid=192, tid=184
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0-beta-b23 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# V [jvm.dll+0x8cebc]
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid192.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
#

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