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

JAI IO

One of the most useful aspects of JAI is the ability to easily read and write image data. Images can be loaded into a PlanarImage if they are contained in a formatted image file, a nonformatted image file, or a BufferedImage. Likewise, the data contained in a PlanarImage can be written into a file as either formatted or unformatted data or the PlanarImage can be converted into a BufferedImage.

File Operator

There are an assortment of operators for reading a specific image format such as BMP, GIF, FPX, JPEG, PNG, PNM, and TIFF (see Table 6.11).

Note

The IO for JAI is built on the Image IO package discussed in Chapter 5, so there shouldn't be a discrepancy between the file formats the Image IO package can decode/encode and the file formats ...