[Insight-users] WrapITK and Java

[Gaëtan Lehmann]

Le 16 avr. 07 à 23:25, Jaety Edwards a écrit :

> Hello all,
> I've been playing with Java and WrapITK for a bit, and while it seems
> quite useful, I've always been a little worried by this sentence from
> the WrapITK readme:
>
> "Currently, WrapITK only supports Python properly; Java and Tcl
> libraries build correctly but the Java and Tcl support classes for
> loading these libraries needs some updating."
>
> I'm not sure whether this means that there are some hiccups I need to
> watch out for, or whether there are still fundamental problems with
> wrapping for Java that will at some point raise their head. I was
> hoping that someone who knows more than I do could help expand on what
> road bumps I should expect to see if I decide to try and use WrapITK +
> Java.
>

In short, the status of java wrappers: it works :-)

With a little more details: itk has not been as  well integrated in  
java than in python. Here is what you can do with python that you  
can't do easily (yet) in java:
  - use native types instead of itk one for the small objects like  
itk::Index, itk::FixedArray, etc. I'm not sure that's as important in  
java than in python though.
  - manipulate the template parameters
  - use external projects to easily extend the capabilities of ITK,  
and link to other libs like vtk

Only the last feature seem to be an important one to implement. We  
just need someone with a good knownledge of java to implement it -  
let me know if you are interested :-)

Gaëtan

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Gaëtan Lehmann
Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
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http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr



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