Question #232162 on Sikuli changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/232162
Status: Open => Answered
RaiMan proposed the following answer:
--- the SikuliX project
Historically there first was sikuli-script.jar, that has the original SikuliX
Java API and still fully supports it with the new version 1.0.0.
It is built above the native C++ libraries of OpenCV (the visual search engine)
and Tesseract (OCR engine). It can be used to run scripts in the Jython
language and is needed by the Sikuli IDE too, to do its job.
It will further be developed to support the usage of Sikuli features using
plain Java or Jython and other Java aware scripting languages.
It is intended to have a sophisticated Java API for visual programming and
allow easy scripting in Java aware scripting languages using Sikuli IDE. Like
Sikuli Java API it can be used in pure Java programming and Java aware
scripting languages using IDEs like Eclipse, NetBeans, ...
--- the Sikuli Java API project
This is a new pure Java development by one of the developers of SikuliX. The
visual search engine is implemented using javacv (a Java JNA implementation of
OpenCV).
It is to some extent feature compatible with SikuliX, but also has some major
differences and lacks some features of SikuliX (no OCR). But it also has some
nice additional features.
But simply said: a Java program using Sikuli Java API will not run with
sikuli-script.jar.
It is intended for use in Java programming and Java aware scripting languages
using IDE's like Eclipse, NetBeans, ...
--- What should I use?
When starting with Sikuli today, you really have the choice. Because it does
not have to carry around some native libraries, it might be somewhat easier to
handle currently.
If you are already a user of SikuliX, now switching to Sikuli Java API does not
really make sense: end July with SikuliX 1.0.1 you can have a sikuli-java.jar,
that you simply put on the class path and start with your Java (or Jython or
whatever scripting language
development). The native libraries are contained in the jar and be exported to
the outside world at runtime.
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