Skip to Main Content
Java™ Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization
book

Java™ Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization

by Alejandro Terrazas, John Ostuni, Michael Barlow
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
848 pages
19h 59m
English
Sams
Content preview from Java™ Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization

Loading and Manipulating Images

-Dr. John Ostuni

Another major section of this book is composed of Chapters 4, 5 and 6. These sections cover loading and manipulating image data. Although Java has always included methods to decode GIF and JPEG images, the ability to read other formats was not available. Also the ability to write formatted images was not available at all. These limitations were removed with the introduction of the Image I/O API in jdk1.4. The Image I/O API provides a pluggable architecture for working with images stored in files and accessed across the network. This API is based on format-specific plug-ins, some of which are contained as part of the Java standard edition whereas others can be downloaded from third parties or written ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Reinventing the Organization for GenAI and LLMs

Reinventing the Organization for GenAI and LLMs

Ethan Mollick
JavaFX 9 by Example

JavaFX 9 by Example

Carl Dea, Gerrit Grunwald, José Pereda, Sean Phillips, Mark Heckler

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0672320940Purchase book