Release of an Open Source Software using ImageJ

[Marcel]

Dear ImageJ users,

With the hope that this application can also be useful for some ImageJ users,
I like to announce the first release of Bio7. This application  is an Integrated Development Environment for ecological modelling with a main focus on individual based modelling and spatially explicit models based on a Rich Client Platform(Eclipse).

Bio7 embedds several tools for:

- Creation and analysis of spatial explicit simulation models.
- Statistical analysis (R).
- Spatial statistics (possibility to send values from a specialized panel to R).
- Image Analysis (embedded ImageJ version 1.35s-> without the plugin functionality!).
- Fast communication between R and Java (with RServe) and
  the possibilty to use R methods inside Java.
- Interpretation of Java and script creation (with BeanShell).
- Direct compilation of Java (Janino).
- Creation of methods for Java, BeanShell and R
  (integrated editors for Java, R, BeanShell).
- Sensitivity analysis with an embedded flowchart editor in which
  scripts, macros and compiled code can be dragged and executed.

The application itself is an OpenSource application and is licensed under the GPL and the EPL
(Eclipse Puplic License).
A complete manual, lot of examples, Flash tutorials and a small Java API is also available.

A Linux version (beta) will soon be available!

Please follow:

http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/biologie/Oekosystembiologie/bio7app/


With kind regards

M. Austenfeld

[dscho]

Hi,

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Bio7 wrote:

> With the hope that this application can also be useful for some ImageJ
> users, I like to announce the first release of Bio7. This application is
> an Integrated Development Environment for ecological modelling with a
> main focus on individual based modelling and spatially explicit models
> based on a Rich Client Platform(Eclipse).

I was impressed by the feature list, so I downloaded a hefty 93M zip file.

But then I was very much disappointed.  It does not run here.  Because
your package is Windows-only.

You might have wanted to say that earlier.  (Your sourceforge page
purports it is Windows XP and Linux compatible.)

Ciao,
Dscho

[Marcel]

The Linux version will be released soon (but as beta!)!
The Bio7 application is not like a regular Java application because it is based
on a rcp-environment (Eclipse) which uses swt as the gui-toolkit and have to be compiled seperately
for each OS.
The download is >90mb because a jre and a R application (2.5.1) is embedded to make it easy to start with Bio7 (The Linux version will not embedd a R version because of the different distributions!). Additionally the whole application is based on Eclipse plugins.

On the download page i noted that a linux version will be released soon.
But i will have a look at the SourceForge page to display this information more
visible.So kindly excuse any inconvenience.

With kind regards

M. Austenfeld