Bio7 2.1 Release Candidate RC2 for MacOSX Available

[Marcel]

After quite a long time I was able to release a new and improved MacOSX release candidate of Bio7 thanks to the latest Eclipse developers effort to reenable the built of a decent RCP.app.
In additon I ship this release as an easy to install *.dmg package.

This release is based on Eclipse 4.5 RC2 and tested on MacOSX 10.10. The final release will be published after the official Eclipse 4.5 release.

Feedback about bugs and usability is welcome for the final release.



Installation:

    Bio7 2.1 comes as a regular *.dmg installation package. Just drag the Bio7.app to the Applications folder.
    Bio7 2.1 comes with a bundled jre 1.8.45. No need to install an extra Java Runtime Environment.
    Bio7 2.1 comes bundled with R 3.2.0 and Rserve 1.8.2 installed.

Eventually XQuartz has to be installed to use the default custom R plotting device of Bio7 on MacOSX. If you plot the first time with R and XQuartz is not available a dialog will inform about the missing package.

Download Bio7 at:

http://bio7.org

Highlights of the 2.x release are:

*Integration of the Eclipse JDT toolchain.
*Dynamic compilation of Java files from the JDT editor.
*Embedded JavaFX SceneBuilder in Bio7. Creation of JavaFX GUI and
  execution at runtime in Bio7 possible.
*Now compatible with all available Eclipse plugins (e.g., WindowBuilder).
*Improved the embedded R statistic GUI interface.
*R editor now with syntactical analysis and many new functions.
*New methods to transfer ImageJ data directly to R or vice versa.
* ImageJ images can now be transferred to an extra view (double-right-click on the tab)
*Integration of Py4J to transfer Java data to CPython.
*PyDev ready if a more powerful Python editor is needed (interpretation
  in Bio7 or PyDev process possible).

Release Notes 2.0, 2.1:

http://bio7.org/?p=2407

http://bio7.org/?p=2530

Bio7 Documentation and Videos:

Bio7 YouTube

Bio7 Documentation