[ImageJ-devel] Trying to integrate imagej-legacy into openmole...

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Mark Hammons wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Johannes Schindelin <
> Johannes.Schindelin at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Mark Hammons wrote:
> >
> > > So, I was curious, how do I start imagej in headless mode when i'm
> > > embedding it into another program?
> >
> > To put that into context: we just met at the EuBIAS conference (Mark
> > is a developer of OpenMole, a software facilitating grid computing).
> > The question was how to call ImageJ1 macros in a headless manner.
> >
> > In principle, after calling net.imagej.DefaultLegacyService.preinit()
> > (contained in ij-legacy.jar [*1*]) you can call IJ.runMacro(String) or
> > IJ.runMacroFile(String) [sic!] to evaluate macros even in headless
> > mode: the preinit() method will make sure that the headless mode is
> > activated, which lets quite a few plugins run in headless mode.
> >
> > When chatting to you (how about Cc:ing your colleagues into this
> > conversation?), it became clear that you will need support for OSGi
> > and are willing to help us with that... Great! Thank you!
> >
> > It also became apparent that you will need to call ImageJ 1.x macros
> > in a massively parallel way. So I promised that I will implement a
> > function that lets you call ImageJ 1.x macros via the LegacyService
> > that uses separate class loaders so that the ImageJ 1.x "instances"
> > cannot interfere with each other.
> >
> > Hopefully I will be able to show you tangible code at most in a few
> > weeks.  Feel free to bug me if you do not hear any progress record
> > from me in the next few days!
> >
> > In the longer run, you will want to run scripts and macros via the
> > ScriptService of ImageJ2, but for that, I think we will need our
> > "macro" recorder which is still a bit off in the future.
> >
> > Footnote *1*: To be precise, "ij-legacy.jar" is my shortcut to "the
> > artifact of the Maven project hosted on http://maven.imagej.net/
> > (releases are in content/repositories/releases/, snapshots in
> > .../snapshots/) identified by the GA net.imagej:ij-legacy. Currently,
> > the latest release version is 2.0.0-beta-7.3 while the snapshot
> > version 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT is "released" continously by our trusty
> > Jenkins.
>
> Ok, I'll give this a try in a few days. I'm going on vacation :)

Enjoy your vacation!
Dscho