Posted by
Jeff Brandenburg on
Jun 08, 2007; 2:16pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Java-Generics-tp3699132p3699137.html
On Jun 8, 2007, at 2:38 AM, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is one for the Java coding folks. I'm just wondering what the
> opinions
> are for implementing
> generics<
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/
> generics.html>in
> the ImageJ code are. Generics only work with Java
> 1.5+, but since 1.5 is already recommended that is ok?
Well, 1.5 is recommended for Windows, but that's mainly because of a
terrible Windows-JRE 1.4.2 crashing bug, if I'm not mistaken.
Wayne and the ImageJ community have sacrificed :-) for a number of
years to maintain JDK 1.1 (!) compatibility, partly for the sake of Mac
OS pre-X users who are unable to upgrade to JRE 1.2. In our lab, many
users are still at OS X 10.3.9, which does not and will never support
JRE 1.5.
I'm not sure about actual statistics, but there are definitely ImageJ
users who can't upgrade to JRE 1.5 without spending significant cash
and/or effort.
People are already writing plugins that require more recent versions of
Java, and that's fine, but I personally hope the ImageJ core continues
to support the widest possible user base.
--
-jeffB (Jeff Brandenburg, Duke Center for In-Vivo Microscopy)