Re: java 8 and OSX

Posted by Michael P Ellis on Jul 20, 2015; 3:33pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/java-8-and-OSX-tp5013642p5013643.html

I too rely on plugins that require Java 8 (lne we build ourselves) and have also found some problems with ImageJ under Java 8 (slow image updates used to be a big problem). These problems seem to have been improving with ImageJ releases and also with Java 8 releases.

I would make sure you have the latests Java 8 installed (some early versions had show stopping bugs which have since been fixed).

Beyond this all I wish to add is a note to anyone involved in ImageJ development that moving to newer JVM’s becomes increasingly important as the older JVMs become increasingly difficult to get support for on the Apple platform and also that anyone doing any development for plugins is increasingly likely to be tooled up to reply on Java 8.

I understand that desire for backwards compatibility but there’s always going to be tradeoff!

— Michael Ellis

--
ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html