Testing Oracle OutsideIn ImageExport on Solaris with Xvfb

Has anyone had success testing Oracle Outside in on solaris using Xvfb? The error messages are a pecious few and I'm not sure what configuration is the problem.

Process

Edit /usr/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig

class="XDISPLAY" name="99" coreKeyboard="IKBD" corePointer="ps22b" listOfScreens="stvga"; et...

Start Xvfb: Xvfb :99 -ac
Start window manager: metacity --display :99 --sm-disable --replace
Setup font path to all font directories
run test
get error: SCCERR_DISPLAYOPENFAILED 0x087 /* Failed to open display (XOpenDisplay failed) */

Solution

I found I had to pass the DISPLAY down to surefire. I thought it would pick it up from the upper level shell, but I was mistaken. The new shell spawned by surefire processes the standard shell init scripts and lacks the variable on my build machine.

<plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
     <configuration>
        <environmentVariables>
          <GDFONTPATH>${localFontDir}</GDFONTPATH>              
          <DISPLAY>${env.DISPLAY}</DISPLAY>              
        </environmentVariables>
     </configuration>

  </plugin>`