Re: Some thoughts about ImageJ ...

Posted by Burger Wilhelm on Mar 10, 2009; 1:54pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Some-thoughts-about-ImageJ-tp3693353p3693366.html

Thanks to all who took the interest and time to respond to my initial
posting - I agree with many (not all) of the arguments raised and the
picture I got is quite clear. Thanks also to Grant for setting up this
new platform and his suggestion to continue the discussion outside the
mailing list.

Wilhelm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ImageJ Interest Group [mailto:[hidden email]] On
> Behalf Of Grant Harris
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: Some thoughts about ImageJ ...
>
> As some of you know, I have been experimenting with how to
> refactor ImageJ
> to decoupling the essential image processing functionality
> from specific UI
> components to facilitate such things as incorporating ImageJ
> into an MDI or
> Docking environment.  While I had originally believed that a
> refactoring
> could be done that would maintain complete source compatability (only
> requiring that plugins be recompiled),  I now think that some
> incompatible
> changes are necessary if ImageJ is to jump to the next level
> - perhaps we
> could call this process "Evolving ImageJ to an Extensible
> Imaging Framework."
>  
> This discussion confirms that there are a significant number
> of like-minded
> ImageJ developers who might be willing to contribute to such
> an effort.  I
> agree with Albert that there needs to be a commitment by a
> core group of
> people to follow such a project through to completion.  If is time to
> bite-the-bullet and make some incompatible changes, I think
> it is important
> to develop a transition strategy that doesn't create chaos in the user
> community.   And I would also encourage us to consider
> collaborating with
> some of the other significant players in the ImageJ
> community, specifically
> OME/OMERO (metadata and image management),  LOCI at Univ.
> Wisconsin(Bio-Formats & VisBio), and microManager at UCSF
> (acquisition control).
>
> To facilitate the initial discussion, I set up Google Group
> called "ImageJX"
>  (http://groups.google.com/group/imagejx) and a Google Code
> project called
> "ijx" (http://code.google.com/p/ijx/).  Feel free to join the
> group, and
> I'll add anyone who is interested to the members list on the
> project.  If
> anyone feels that Fiji or some other site is a better tool
> for this, let me
> know.  Or we can continue the discussion here on the mailing list.
>
> -- Grant B. Harris
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> Instrumentation Engineer, Cellular Dynamics Program
> Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 02543  
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>