/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket: Musings from the bitbucket

I've been mucking around with various different versions of the JDK lately, and have come across this problem from time to time:

Warning: Cannot convert string "-monotype-arial-regular-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font
Warning:
    Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING
    Class: XmRendition
    Conversion failed.  Cannot load font.

In the past I've used a combination of AWTTOOLKIT=Motif and XMTDEBUGFONT environment settings in order to wiggle around it. Today, however, neither of those vars helped. What did help was this troubleshooting link from the Uni of Delaware. It contains this piece of information: add your remote display's font server to your X session's font path:

$ xset fp+ tcp/doppio:7100

and there you have it. Fiendishly simple. Now why on earth could I not find this in a sunsolve search?

I've been documenting my OOD assignment code using javadoc, which is The Right Thing To Do(tm). Which is all well and good except that javadoc doesn't have either a "precondition" or "postcondition" tag built in. I included @pre and @post tags in my comments, then ran javadoc like this: $ javadoc ---tag pre:a:"Precondition" ---tag post:a:"Postcondition" ---private ---d docs *java which gave me the unexpected and unwarranted message

Note: Custom tags that could override future standard tags: @precondition, @postcondition. To avoid potential overrides, use at least one period character (.) in custom tag names. Note: Custom tags that were not seen: @precondition, @postcondition

Hang on a minute, I just specified those tags on my command line? What's going on? I tried using ---taglet instead of ---tag, but still no success:

javadoc: error --- Error --- Exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException thrown while trying to register Taglet precondition:a:Precondition... javadoc: error --- Error --- Exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException thrown while trying to register Taglet postcondition:a:Postcondition...

not that I really expected this one to work, since I haven't defined a taglet or doclet to go with the pre- and post-condition tags. What should I do? Is this a bug in javadoc (1.5.0_01 on Solaris Nevada build 24 + nightlies) ?