With ImageJ 1.39f and later, the Compile and Run command will run a
compiled plugin (.class file) without the Java compiler being present.
-wayne
On Oct 9, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Burger Wilhelm wrote:
> Hello!
>
> With the new Java 5 features being widely used, the obsolence of the
> SDK-supplied compiler (in tools.jar) has become a growing annoyance. I
> therefore always use an external Java compiler (such as Eclipse) to
> compile the plugin code into .class files, which I they then execute
> from ImageJ. Unfortunately, the current version of ImageJ asks for the
> compiler to be installed even for loading and exectuting .class files.
>
> As a remedy, I wrote a simple plugin that lets you execute other
> plugins, similar to the "Compile-and-Run" command in ImageJ, but only
> works on compiled plugin (.class) files and thus does NOT require the
> Java compiler to be installed (usually found in tools.jar).
>
> The Java source file can be found here:
>
http://webster.fh-hagenberg.at/staff/burger/imagej/index.html or
>
http://webster.fh-hagenberg.at/staff/burger/imagej/plugins/
> Plugin_Run_Only.java
>
> Hope this is helpful, though I am sure Wayne already has a much more
> elegant solution for this.
>
> Regards,
> Wilhelm Burger
> www.imagingbook.com
>