Milestone OMERO-Beta4

OMERO-Beta4 is the our next major release. Our goal in Beta4 is to deliver a fully-functional application that delivers a broad range of server and client features. As in our Beta2.x and Beta 3.x series, we will move through a series of Beta4.x steps, which will deliver major functionality additions.

• File formats
  • STK, LIF, ND2 support : document what's supported and produce valid XML

• Server Features:
  • Reduction of default permissions to private
  • API for external client (such as matlab) to get metadata/images in/out
  • Server-side DropBox? import based on OmeroFs
  • full support for OME Data Model; Expanded metadata support
  • Performance improvements for large imports (OmeroThrottling)
  • Annotation service including description and mutability support
  • Delete service
  • Version service for detecting client/server mismatches (#220)

• Client features
  • All clients migrated to OmeroBlitz
  • Release of new browser-based client, OmeroWeb?
  • Delete Functionality
  • Expanded metadata support; fuller acquisition metadata facilities
  • Integration of  OMERO.editor facilities in to  OMERO.insight
  • addition of wiki editing for text annotations, with OMERO wiki words.
  • Delete of images
  • ImageJ plugin for OMERO

• Cleanup and refactoring
  • Metadata testing framework with test data synchronization over many formats
  • Rendering setting fixes
  • Removal of all JBoss
  • Removal of results.xml
  • Removal of Category Groups & Categories
  • General library upgrades