Posted by
Michael Ellis on
Aug 06, 2010; 10:10pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/combine-function-of-the-ROI-manager-tp3685239p3685248.html
To Gluender and Raymond,
Thanks for your opinions. Certainly more positive on the Java front
than I had feared.
Regards -- Michael Ellis
Michael,
...only an attempt to answer some of your questions:
> Is there any idea floating around in the ether as to how many people
> are using ImageJ and what range of areas it is being applied to?
If you take a look at the confirmation eMail you've received from the
List-server you will realize that there are 1755 (re 3rd August 2010)
list memebers.
My guess is that at least 3 to 5 times more people use IJ on a regular
basis.
The range of areas comprises mostly scientific analysis (and
synthesis) of all kinds of image(-like) data but to a much lesser
extent so-called image cosmetics and art-work.
(This is my very personal impression.)
> Are there any stats for how many ImageJ downloads?
>
> 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?
Well, no doubt, Apple has dropped the Java-to-Cocoa bridge (can a
bridge be dropped?) but Java is still supported by Apple and there are
generally late but regular updates of the OSX-specific VJM.
> Just questions gnawing at me a little whilst considering how much
> effort to plough into pursuing things with Java and ImageJ.
According to more recent investigations, Java and C are the most used
high-level programming languages. Only recently, C was slightly ahead
of Java but currently Java is leading a bit. So no doubt, Java will
stay with us for many years to come, even for Mac-users.
> Michael Ellis
> Cambridge, UK
On 6 Aug 2010, at 21:40, Raymond Martin wrote:
> 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