Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) is a

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which allows developers to create their own image manipulation routines. JAI is provided as a free download directly from

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from their website for Mac OS X v10.3. JAI ships with Mac OS X v10.4 and later. While the API is provided in

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, platform-specific implementations can either use the pure Java implementation or provide an implementation that takes advantage of native technology on the platform to provide better performance. The API was superseded by the Java Image I/O API, starting with Java 1.4.

External links

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Apache Commons Imaging
- a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats

References

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