COM connection to ImageJ

Posted by Frederic V. Hessman on Oct 29, 2009; 8:19am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/longest-inscribed-lines-tp3690610p3690612.html

I received a request for an ImageJ connection with the Windows COM API  
(the native component object system) from a user of the ASCOM  
astronomy API (which connects the world of Windows-based amateur  
astronomy gadgets from telescopes and domes to cameras and focusers):  
see http://ascom-standards.org/Standards/Index.htm for the API.

Most commercial camera manufacturers and/or image-processing programs  
support the ASCOM standard but with ImageJ there would be a generic,  
open-source and free alternative.   The camera interface might be  
interesting for many non-astronomical ImageJ developers/users.

Unfortunately, I didn't see anything on the web or the ImageJ plugin  
lists and, as a non-Windows person, I have no idea what this might  
entail.    Can't be too simple for a cross-platform solution, since  
the only COM bridge I found for Linux was commericial and one-way only.

Anybody out there with experience or hints?

Rick