package not recognized on Windows 10 using conda env, cannot resolve java version

Windows version: 10.0.19045.2604 Conda version: 23.3.1 Python: 3.10 pip: 23.1.2 IDE: PyCharm Professional 23.1.2 Editor: VSCode V 0.3.3 93b7cc4

Install method: exactly as outlined here

I have made several attempts to get this package working but all have lead me to dead ends. The issue is despite having the build files, packages, and activated environment, my IDE cannot find the "imagej" module. I'm not quite sure what's wrong as I have maven and the jdk installed, this appears when I type mvn in powershell:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time:  0.079 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2023-05-18T13:33:18+09:00
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[ERROR] No goals have been specified for this build. You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format <plugin-prefix>:<goal> or <plugin-group-id>:<plugin-artifact-id>[:<plugin-version>]:<goal>. Available lifecycle phases are: pre-clean, clean, post-c
lean, validate, initialize, generate-sources, process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile, process-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources, generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile, process-test-classes, test, pr
epare-package, package, pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, verify, install, deploy, pre-site, site, post-site, site-deploy. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
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[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/NoGoalSpecifiedException

typing javac -version yields: javac 17.0.3

I can see the pyimagej folder installed in my conda environment, located at C:\Users\user\anaconda3\pkgs\pyimagej-1.4.1-py38haa244fe_0

I can tell the pyimagej environment is activated denoted by the parenthesis at the beginning of the powershell prompt (pyimagej) C:\Users\user\PycharmProjects\kymograph-generator>

typing pip install pyimagej yields a long list of 'requirement already satisfied' responses of the sub-dependencies.

Ok, so perhaps something is misconfigured in the IDE, I'll try an editor to narrow down the issue. I open the python project with the exact same conda environment using VSC instead of PyCharm. I tried running the following code in VSC:

import imagej

ij = imagej.init()

image_url = 'https://imagej.net/images/clown.jpg'
jimage = ij.io().open(image_url)

image = ij.py.from_java(jimage)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ij.py.show(image, cmap='gray')

first I get a "JAVA_HOME" not found error, so I have to manually configure env variables to point to the JDK. After doing so I get this:

PS C:\Users\user\PycharmProjects\kymograph-generator> & C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python310/python.exe c:/user/single-molecule/PycharmProjects/kymograph-generator/main.py
Failed to guess the Java version.

typing java -version instead of javac -version this time we get:

openjdk version "17.0.7" 2023-04-18 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Zulu17.42+19-CA (build 17.0.7+7-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Zulu17.42+19-CA (build 17.0.7+7-LTS, mixed mode, sharing)

and that is where the trail ends for me. Hope one day this package can be installed via a simple pip install as I really have a lot of issues with the imagej macro language to get simple things done.

imagej / pyimagej

package not recognized on Windows 10 using conda env, cannot resolve java version #261