[Gimp-user] Is it possible to access the capabilities of gimp in Java?

[stephen <forums gimpusers com>]

> Ofnuts wrote:
> > On 05/31/2012 03:14 AM, stephen wrote:
> > > > On 05/31/2012 02:33 AM, stephen wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > Does Gimp offer an interface (dll) which will allow me to access it 
> > > > > capabilities through java or c++?
> > > > There is  a C interface, and there is a Python interface which is quite
> > > > powerful.
> Hi,

> I see the following possibilities:
> 1. There is a Java wrapper for GIMP, see http://jgimp.sourceforge.net/, 
> but this project hasn't been active for a long time.
> 2. A still existing way is to use the Java Native Interface (JNI), which 
> lets you call C/C++ functions from Java and vice versa.
> 3. GIMP has a built-in script-fu server which interpretes GIMPs plugin 
> language, a Scheme dialect. You could connect to it over a socket from 
> an arbitrary language and control GIMP remotely, although it's a bit 
> oversized if you could call GIMPs functionality directly from within 
> your program.
> 4. IMHO you should be able to access C from C++ by including the C 
> header files, but I haven't tried this for GIMP yet.
> 5. If you're only interested in accessing GIMPs graphics core, then you 
> could use a wrapper around the GEGL library. A Java language binding has 
> yet to be developed.

> Best regards,

> grafxuser

Great!  I look into those. Thanks.

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