distributing plugins with ij and jre

Posted by Martha Narro-2 on Mar 27, 2007; 11:16pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/distributing-plugins-with-ij-and-jre-tp3699948.html

Hello,

I developed a set of plugins called NeuronMetrics for Dr. Linda  
Restifo's group that provide semi-automated analysis of morphology of  
cultured neurons. Unfortunately, the plugins are dependent on both a  
particular version of ImageJ (version 1.36b) and of Java (jre  
1.5.0_03). This happened once before during development and has now  
happened again. I am not tracking down the cause of the dependencies  
because the project (and funding) is finished, and I have moved on. I  
think it would be easiest for users, and stable, if we could  
distribute the required version of ImageJ, my plugins, and the jre  
all bundled together. What I have in mind is something analogous to  
the Windows distribution of ImageJ bundled with Java (http://
rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download.html), but with the NeuronMetrics  
plugins included too. The user could just click to install ImageJ.  
Can someone tell me how to do this?

Once I get the distribution issues worked out, we would like to have  
a link from the ImageJ page to Dr. Restifo's home page which will  
have information about downloading the plugins, the paper describing  
the plugins, and the User Manual.

Thanks,

Martha Narro