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

Push Imaging Model

It is a misconception that the push model was poorly designed and is no longer useful. On the contrary, this model was designed to provide a simple way to load images into Applets and applications. The main advantage of this model is that it can load and display images incrementally as they become available over the network. Another advantage is that by using the push model, your images can be viewed by almost all browsers without the need for plug-ins to replace the browser's Java virtual machine (JVM). The main disadvantage of the push model is that the image data isn't collected into an accessible location, making anything more than simple image processing difficult. A second disadvantage is that the programming interface ...