[cups.general] Java printing with CUPS

Michael Herdman michael.herdman at wanadoo.fr
Fri Dec 8 00:19:02 PST 2006


Michael Sweet wrote:

>I've actually had some discussions with Sun the other day; the issue
>is that the default server address in CUPS 1.2 is a domain socket,
>which Java does not support.  They will be implementing a fix for
>that (fallback to localhost IP socket), but in the meantime you can
>create/update an /etc/cups/client.conf file containing:
>
>     ServerName localhost
>
>to force your Java applications to use IP instead of domain sockets.
>
>  
>
Many thanks, Michael, that works fine with Sun jdk 1.5.x (which was a 
problem before).
Mike





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