May 1999
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
9h 6m
English
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1.1. What Is Java 2D?
The Java 2D Application Programming Interface (the 2D API) is a set of classes that can be used to create high quality graphics. It includes features like geometric transformation, antialiasing, alpha compositing, image processing, and bidirectional text layout, just to name a few. Don't worry if you don't know what some of these features are — I'll explain them all.
Java 2D is part of the core classes of the Java 2 platform (formerly JDK 1.2). The 2D API introduces new classes in the following packages:
java.awt
java.awt.image
In addition, the 2D API encompasses six entirely new packages:
java.awt.color
java.awt.font
java.awt.geom
java.awt.print
java.awt.image.renderable
com.sun.image.codec.jpeg
All of these packages are part of the core Java 2 platform, except com.sun.image.code.jpeg. This means that, except for the JPEG package, you can rely on the 2D API in all implementations of the Java 2 platform.
This book covers all of the new packages, with the exception of java.awt.image.renderable. This package serves as a bridge to the Java Advanced Imaging API (JAI), which is outside the scope of this book.
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