> Disclaimer: I'm pulling this out of my arse, but there's a chance > that I'm right..
Anything's *possible* :-), but... > The biggest advantage will be its cross platform abilities. Sort of... The big advantage is that the Java version will be a single jar file (maybe two) which can just be dropped in and used, regardless of the OS or machine, as long as it has Java installed. No need to install Python or any image-processing utility. And it might be faster, due to the increased effort that's gone into Java compilation. But I'm not counting on that. > With a Java image processor, we now only need worry about > maintaining compatability with 1 image parser. Nope. I'll still keep the support for the three existing image parsers, and add support for a fourth, JIU. > Additionally, there are more people fluent in Java than in Python. But the source code will still be in Python, so that's essentially a no-op. Bill
