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Re: Container Overview for Java Programmers

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On 2022-01-06 20:16, Michael Jung wrote:
> Wayne <wayne@nospam.invalid> writes:
>> On 12/30/2021 7:41 AM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
>>> On 2021-12-20 21:10, Wayne wrote:
> [...]
>>> But I've never seen the case where the development itself ("launch
>>> your IDE in a container") would take place in a container. Can
>>> people confirm that this is an established practice? Docker
>>> containers generally don't have display ports...
> [...]
>> The thing is, Linux containers *do* support running GUIs from containers, but
>> I don't think native Windows containers do (at least not yet).  You could also
>> use a VM for development instead of a container, and I've heard of that (using
>> Vagrant), but containers with Eclipse, STS4, or IntelliJ are smaller and
>> faster to launch, so that makes them a better choice.  But to be honest, I
>> cannot find my references to someone claiming to do this; I just remember
>> reading about it.
> 
> They are doing it at my current company. Those that I know of use
> vscode.  The way I know is that I had the same question about whether
> the Xserver would allow connecting to the display from a potentially
> different userid in the container.  It's probably the correct one from
> the outside.  I don't know any details, it just works.

How's the experience? Would you recommend it?

-- 
DF.

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Container Overview for Java Programmers Wayne <wayne@nospam.invalid> - 2021-12-20 15:10 -0500
  Re: Container Overview for Java Programmers Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2021-12-30 13:41 +0100
    Re: Container Overview for Java Programmers Wayne <wayne@nospam.invalid> - 2021-12-31 16:54 -0500
      Re: Container Overview for Java Programmers Michael Jung <miju@nospam.invalid> - 2022-01-06 20:16 +0100
        Re: Container Overview for Java Programmers Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2022-01-10 17:47 +0100
          Re: Container Overview for Java Programmers Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2022-01-10 16:58 +0000
            Re: Container Overview for Java Programmers Michael Jung <miju@golem.phantasia.org> - 2022-01-15 22:59 +0100
    Re: Container Overview for Java Programmers Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2022-01-04 10:51 +0100

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