This page provides an overview of software projects in active development at LOCI. For questions regarding the software, feel free to email the mailing list or the Bio-Formats developers, or contact Curtis Rueden and Kevin Eliceiri directly.

There is a low-traffic mailing list for announcements, questions, bug reports and discussion about LOCI software.

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If you are interested in the latest Java source code from our Subversion repository, you can check it out using the repository path:

You will find each package in the corresponding "SVN path" listed below. We also have a Trac server for project management, including tasks, milestones and known issues.

If you are unfamiliar with Subversion, read the Initial Checkout and Basic Work Cycle sections of the online Subversion book for a primer. If you use Windows and want a graphical Subversion client, try TortoiseSVN.

If you use the Eclipse SDK for development, you can use the Subclipse plugin to import the LOCI Software project by choosing File > Import... from the menu and selecting "Checkout Projects from SVN" under the "Other" heading. After doing so, the project should build successfully with no further configuration (though please note that seeing hundreds of non-fatal warnings is normal). Alternately, if you check out the code with an external tool such as TortoiseSVN, you can import the project into Eclipse afterward using the "Existing Projects into Workspace" import option under the "General" heading.

If you have Ant installed, you can make use of our Ant build script—try "ant -p" for a list of targets.

Lastly, you can browse the online Javadocs for all our Java software, or generate them yourself using the "docs" Ant target.