Java bindings vs. Python bindings

[Tobias Verbeke]

Dear Gilbert, 

Many thanks for your detailed answer and guidance.

We will definitely release publicly if we go ahead
and I will report back to the list.

Thanks again!

Best,
Tobias

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benjamin Gilbert" <bgilbert at cs.cmu.edu>
> To: openslide-users at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 2:14:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Java bindings vs. Python bindings
> 
> On 02/13/2014 10:01 AM, Tobias Verbeke wrote:
> > Now we'd like to see whether we can put up similar functionality
> > using a Java web application and were wondering whether the Java
> > bindings expose the same functionality as the Python bindings or
> > whether there are gaps currently that would prevent us from
> > replicating the exact behaviour of the Flask application.
> 
> Hi Tobias,
> 
> OpenSlide Java doesn't contain any Deep Zoom support code, so you'd have
> to port deepzoom.py to Java.  It exclusively uses public APIs, so you
> could do this outside of OpenSlide Java.  (Of course, as a port of
> LGPLv2.1-licensed code, the resulting Java classes would also fall under
> the terms of the LGPL.  I'd encourage you to release the ported code,
> since it might be useful to others.)
> 
> Generating Deep Zoom tiles for associated images, if you wanted to do
> that, would require some additional indirection.  In OpenSlide Python,
> DeepZoomGenerator can receive an ImageSlide object, which wraps a PIL
> image and implements the same interface as the OpenSlide class.
> OpenSlide Java doesn't have anything like ImageSlide and doesn't provide
> a separated interface for the OpenSlide class.
> 
> --Benjamin Gilbert
> 
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