Re: Are there any statistics on ImageJ use?

Posted by Raymond Martin-2 on Aug 06, 2010; 8:40pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/combine-function-of-the-ROI-manager-tp3685239p3685247.html

Hi,

On August 6, 2010 02:41:16 pm you wrote:
>
> What about Java? Apple (the platform I tend to use) seem to be showing
> less enthusiasm for Java. Now Oracle have acquired Sun, does anyone
> have any idea as to the future of Java?

The direction is uncertain as of yet from the Oracle side. They have made a
number of promises for positive change, but the results of those will not be
known for at least a few months as the version moves towards 1.7.

In regard to Apple, the Apple Java team has done a really good job in the past
two years of catching up to the Oracle/Sun version. In my opinion, before that
things were shaky at times with 1.6 and in other areas. So I personally have
seen a good amount of stability come into place. But they might end up being
behind again when 1.7 appears.

I do not think Apple will be able to get rid of Java (on the desktop/server)
because there are so many developers using it and from watching the Apple Java
developers list for a few years they received a lot of flack when the Cocoa-
Java bridge was taken out and for a few other things that looked like they
were trying to dump Java. It seems like they had to step back from that to
avoid losing customers.

Raymond