plugin format requirements

[Boris Epstein]

Hello everybody,

We have a plugin, OpenMIMS Analysis Module (see
http://www.nrims.hms.harvard.edu/NRIMS_ImageJ.php for more details). We
have recently modified some code in it (mostly, just adding new
functionality) but now for some reason the plugin is no longer even
recognized by the ImageJ at startup. Hence the following question: what
are the format requirements for an IJ plugin? What files/references
should a plugin file/JAR contain? Is there a document specifying that?

Thanks in advance.

--
*Boris Epstein
National Resource For Imaging Mass Spectrometry
<http://www.nrims.hms.harvard.edu/>
Cambridge, MA
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[dscho]

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Boris Epstein wrote:

> We have a plugin, OpenMIMS Analysis Module (see
> http://www.nrims.hms.harvard.edu/NRIMS_ImageJ.php for more details). We
> have recently modified some code in it (mostly, just adding new
> functionality) but now for some reason the plugin is no longer even
> recognized by the ImageJ at startup. Hence the following question: what
> are the format requirements for an IJ plugin? What files/references
> should a plugin file/JAR contain? Is there a document specifying that?

Basically, the name should contain an underscore.  If you want, you can
provide a plugins.config which you include in the .jar file.  It appears
you did so, in the currently downloadable .jar file:

File>Import, "MIMS Images...", NRIMS("open")
Plugins>Open MIMS, "Open MIMS Image...", NRIMS("open")

Maybe you have a corrupt plugins.config in your new .jar?  Or maybe you
forgot to include it.

If the .jar file does not include a plugins.config, its contents are
searched for classes whose name contains an underscore (this is also done
in at least one level of subdirectories).

It would be easier to help you if I got the non-working .jar file.

Ciao,
Dscho

P.S.: it seems that you included not only the sources in the .jar file
(which is good), but also subversion meta-data (which you probably wanted
to avoid).

[Emilio Miguelanez Martin]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has any experience of working with a
ultrasound image Scanner, such as Echo Blaster 128, and ImageJ.

Basically, I want to integrate the image capture of the Echo Blaster 128
into ImageJ toolbar using a plugin.

Thanks in advance,
Emilio

--
Emilio Migueláñez Martín, PhD
Research Associate
Electrical, Electronic and Computing Engineering
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
Riccarton
Edinburgh EH14 4AS

t: [phone]

[Boris Epstein]

Hello again,

Thank you everybody. Our problem turned out to be that we renamed the
plugin JAR and the new name contained no underscores.

Here's the explanaition I got for why there ought to be an underscore in
the name:

"This is how ImageJ knows, at startup, which JAR files to open and scan
for a plugins.config file or a plugin. JAR files without an underscore
in the name are assumed to be libraries."

Cheers,

Boris.

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Boris Epstein wrote:
>
>  
>> We have a plugin, OpenMIMS Analysis Module (see
>> http://www.nrims.hms.harvard.edu/NRIMS_ImageJ.php for more details). We
>> have recently modified some code in it (mostly, just adding new
>> functionality) but now for some reason the plugin is no longer even
>> recognized by the ImageJ at startup. Hence the following question: what
>> are the format requirements for an IJ plugin? What files/references
>> should a plugin file/JAR contain? Is there a document specifying that?
>>    
>
> Basically, the name should contain an underscore.  If you want, you can
> provide a plugins.config which you include in the .jar file.  It appears
> you did so, in the currently downloadable .jar file:
>
> File>Import, "MIMS Images...", NRIMS("open")
> Plugins>Open MIMS, "Open MIMS Image...", NRIMS("open")
>
> Maybe you have a corrupt plugins.config in your new .jar?  Or maybe you
> forgot to include it.
>
> If the .jar file does not include a plugins.config, its contents are
> searched for classes whose name contains an underscore (this is also done
> in at least one level of subdirectories).
>
> It would be easier to help you if I got the non-working .jar file.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
> P.S.: it seems that you included not only the sources in the .jar file
> (which is good), but also subversion meta-data (which you probably wanted
> to avoid).
>  

--
*Boris Epstein
National Resource For Imaging Mass Spectrometry
<http://www.nrims.hms.harvard.edu/>
Cambridge, MA
Mobile: [phone]*

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