Tying up the Loose Ends
At this point, we have dealt with events, components, and containers both in summary and in depth. There are just a few other topics to cover to conclude the chapter.
JDK 1.4 image I/O
Java at last has an API for image I/O, allowing you to read and write files in several popular formats both locally and across the net. It's nicely-designed and extensible so that as new formats appear they can quickly be supported by Java.
Image I/O (introduced in JDK1.4) supports reading GIF, JPEG, and PNG formats. GIF is not supported for writing because it uses LZW compression, the algorithm for which is encumbered by a patent held by Unisys. One patent expired in June 2003, but Unisys has indicated that it thinks it holds some ...
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