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dscho on
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Hi,
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Yili Zhao wrote:
> I have two suggestions to ImageJ:
> 1. the show() method in the PlugInFrame skeleton code is deprecated in
> JDK, may ImageJ use setVisible(true) instead?
You do know that ImageJ still compiles on very old JDK versions? And you
do know that what you propose breaks that?
> 2. as sun will open source Java,
I believe that when I have it. (That is, if you have the same
understanding of Open Source as I do, not something like the JRL or
similar "open".)
> in JDK 6.0 the package javax.tools has supplied some interface to
> control javac compiler. Now ImageJ uses tools.jar to access javac
> directly. Maybe ImageJ can add some classes or methods to use the new
> javax.tools.JavaCompiler class and others to compile plugins. More Java
> Compiler API infomation can be found at
>
http://download.java.net/jdk6/doc/api/.
I am working on a machine which is not supported by Sun. So, my JDK is
IBMs 1.5 compatible one, and will be for a long time.
I would be _extremely_ unhappy if you just introduced a dependency on
java6 behind my back, making it impossible for me to continue working on
ImageJ.
> By the way, I have installed JDK 6.0 rc b100, and found that the
> performance has some improved by using ImageJ's benchmark utility :)
Yes, I found that even Sun's Java 5 (where available) boosts performance
substantially.
But please let this be an option, not a dependency.
Ciao,
Dscho