title: Java web start without X
body: <p>I need to start my application in different Linux servers using SSH. I thought to use java web start so I can pack my application once and run it on the servers by dynamically downloading the application. The big problem is that the server does not have X started and when I launch the command </p>
  
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    <p>javaws -Xnosplash </p>
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  <p>the application returns immediately with no output.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to get the stdout/stderr of the application to understand what is going wrong?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Sorry the description is incomplete. The application does not use a GUI, it is supposed to run as a command line application. I need JWS because I can use different launch files with an high number of parameters for testing purposes, and I can deploy the application once, and run it on multiple servers. </p>
  
  <p>Now when I run it using the java command everything works fine, with javaws the commands returns quietly and I do not know what is going wrong. </p>
  
  <p>p.s. I cannot see any logs under /.java/* directory</p>