Posted by
Grant Harris on
Mar 10, 2009; 1:21pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Some-thoughts-about-ImageJ-tp3693353p3693367.html
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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