Is there currently any workaround for running processing on AWS Cloud9?

kravenoff42

Due to some special circumstances, I have been forced to migrate most of my development over to a cloud environment, which also means primarily working on web development. I have enjoyed working with P5js but there are some key differences, particularly with 3d rendering.

I only recently occurred to me that AWS Cloud9 does support Java and that I might be able to just use processing after all. However, after installing the tgz and running the Program it threw an error because the server is headless as it is hosted on a cloud.

Just hoping someone else has maybe attempted this and can share some insights.

Is there a workaround? should I just give up? Is it theoretically possible?

Tried searching around on the forum as well as some googling to no avail.

jeremydouglass

Perhaps check out this discussion from 2014 w @KevinWorkman and @GoToLoop --

https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/comment/32968/#Comment_32968

I just successfully deployed a webapp to AWS and used the Processing library to create a PImage on the server side, which passed info about that PImage to the client side. So, it's at least possible.

kfrajer

These next could be relevant:

https://github.com/processing/processing/wiki/Running-without-a-Display
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/headless-136834.html

Kf