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ctrueden on
Jul 20, 2015; 4:03pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/java-8-and-OSX-tp5013642p5013645.html
Hi Michael,
> 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.
Indeed, the ImageJ team at LOCI 100% agrees with you, and as announced
earlier we do plan to migrate to Java 8 by the end of the summer:
http://imagej.net/2015-06-15_-_Major_updates_in_the_worksWe are definitely feeling the same pain you describe—especially as more and
more underlying libraries raise their minimum requirements—and even though
Java 8 still has some problems, the only way they will realistically be
addressed is to do the migration and deal with the fallout. But of course
we being as careful as we can to minimize the chances of backwards
incompatible updates.
Regards,
Curtis
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Michael Ellis <
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wrote:
> 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
>
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