[ImageJ-devel] error: Unrecognized command: "Versatile Wand"

[Chris]

> Hi Chris,
> 
> > I use the versatile wand plugin for part of my image analysis, and it
> > should be available in the repository, right?
> 
> Nope, Versatile Wand is not part of Fiji, and not available from any Maven repository.
> 
> > So why doesn't my instance of ImageJ  in NetBeans recognize it?
> 
> You can hack around it by including a copy of the Versatile Wand source with your plugin. But this ultimately causes problems because then you will be shipping your own version of it which might conflict with a different version installed by a user.
> 
> The proper solution is to deploy the Versatile Wand JAR file to a Maven remote repository you control. Or at minimum: install it to your local Maven repository cache. But both of these are rather involved for someone who is just getting started with Maven.
> 
> A much easier approach would be to simply develop your plugin using the Fiji Script Editor, which will automatically include all installed plugins on your classpath when you compile and run. But then you can't use NetBeans, of course.

The odd part is that I have Versitile_Wand.java in my java files, along with all my other java files, and it gets compiled into my target/classes, but it still doesn't get recognized.  It always used to.  I don't get it...