Building Imaging Applications with Java(TM) Technology: Using AWT Imaging, Java 2D(TM), and Java(TM) Advanced Imaging (JAI) [Paperback]

Lawrence H. Rodrigues (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 6, 2001

This is an expert guide to building sophisticated Java graphics and imaging applications with the Java 2 platform. Through extensive practical examples and projects, leading graphics developer Lawrence Rodrigues covers topics that other Java graphics books ignore -- including the first in-depth coverage of using the new Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) APIs, and integrating them with Java2D. Rodrigues covers all aspects of building Java-based graphics and imaging software, starting with application design. He demonstrates how to generate graphics, load and display them, manipulate, print, and save them. He also covers several advanced topics, notably remote imaging. The book presents detailed coverage of four key Java graphics class libraries, including java.awt.Graphics, java.awt.Graphics2D, java.awt.color, and java.awt.font. Each chapter ends with a project that helps readers integrate every key concept they've learned. For every intermediate-to-advanced level Java developer interested in building sophisticated graphics and imaging applications.

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From the Back Cover

With the advent of Java 2D™ and the Java™ Advanced Imaging API (JAI), sophisticated imaging functionality can now be incorporated into Java™ applets and applications. This new capability facilitates the creation of cross-platform, Internet-enabled imaging software.

Written with practicing programmers in mind, Building Imaging Applications with Java™ Technology is a comprehensive, practical how-to guide. This book focuses on the information imaging programmers must know to produce high-quality imaging software with Advanced Window Toolkit (AWT), Java 2D, and JAI.

Building Imaging Applications with Java™ Technology reviews the fundamentals of AWT, the original set of Java imaging APIs. It also presents the more sophisticated imaging capabilities in Java 2D and introduces the powerful functionality of the new JAI APIs. You will learn how to create all types of graphics; how to load, render, and manipulate images; and how to perform image analysis. Numerous detailed examples from the real world of Internet, satellite, and medical imaging illustrate key concepts and techniques.

Specific topics include:

• Loading images from JAR files
• Describing shapes and the affine transformation in Java 2D
• Designing a class library of shapes
• Designing a component class for interactive drawing
• Designing a component class for displaying images
• Printing in Java 2D
• Implementing pan and zoom
• Implementing interactive rotate, shear, and flip
• Manipulating images at the pixel level using the Java 2D API
• Working with tiles in JAI to render large images
• Image manipulation in JAI using affine transformation, projections, and warping
• Image analysis in JAI, including edge detection, statistics, and region of interest computation (ROI)
• Remote imaging using RMI and JAI
• Internet imaging, including the use of Java 2D and JAI with servlets and JSP, the design of Web-based
• imaging applications, and the Internet Imaging Protocol (IIP)
• Using the new Image I/O framework to read and write images

"Putting It All Together" sections help you put vital concepts and techniques into practice with interactive examples using actual applications. All sample code in the book is available online.

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About the Author

Lawrence H. Rodrigues is a lead applications architect who was an early adopter of the Java programming language. During more than 20 years in industry, he has designed and developed several real-world applications in the fields of medical imaging, satellite imaging, and Internet imaging, including state-of-the-art imaging software for CT and MR scanners for a leading medical imaging company. Larry writes and lectures extensively and is also the author of The Awesome Power of JavaBeans™ (Manning, 1998).

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Product Details

• Paperback: 880 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (June 6, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201700743
• ISBN-13: 978-0201700749
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,487,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book, July 29, 2001

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alaa alnaji (fresno, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Imaging Applications with Java(TM) Technology: Using AWT Imaging, Java 2D(TM), and Java(TM) Advanced Imaging (JAI) (Paperback)

I have recently bought this book after buying the o'reilly's Java 2D Graphics and the sun Java2D API which are realy 2 great books but compared to this one are absolutely nothing. It's amazing how this book manages to combine concepts of the whole 3 mthods of dealing with images in Java in AWT, Java2D and the new JAI which no other book not to my knowlege at least hasnt even dealt with the subject let alone explain it so thoroughly with great examples like this one. It's also full of code utilizing alot of new methods and techniques which would make this a great book to learn from even if u didnt want to learn anything about imaging in Java. It puts alot of emphasis on dealing with imaging neglegting the other aspects of the API but I guess for most of us interested in this subject that is the only thing that matters I certinly skipped all the chapters dealing with the others subjects in the other 2 books. If u were in doubt of buying this title just take a look at the output of the examples given and you will see the potential of the things that could be done with imaging using JAI or JAVA2D.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Should be good, but it isn't, December 29, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Building Imaging Applications with Java(TM) Technology: Using AWT Imaging, Java 2D(TM), and Java(TM) Advanced Imaging (JAI) (Paperback)

This book suffers from tacit knowledge oversight, a situation where the author assumes that the reader already knows the subject matter. Reading this book didn't help me understand the design behind Java 2D API or how to use it effectively

The concept of the Alpha channel is not discussed at all. How do you use Java 2D with ARGB data? This book does not tell you.

An example of a simple problem that I couldn't solve after reading this book is how do you use Java 2D when your data is ordered BGR instead of RGB? You would think that interchanging the values in the BandOffsets would do it, but Java 2D throws an Exception. In general his short examples seem too contrived to be useful, and the examples that use random numbers as images are not useful because you can't tell if the image is displayed correctly.

On the positive side the region of interest example included looks very interesting (though I haven't tried it).

I'd like to see a second edition that explains the design of Java 2D, how the APIs are supposed to be used, and why certain things don't work as expected.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Thorough and Practical Treatment of Imaging in Java, August 20, 2001

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Edward C. Hill (MADISON, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Imaging Applications with Java(TM) Technology: Using AWT Imaging, Java 2D(TM), and Java(TM) Advanced Imaging (JAI) (Paperback)

I have found this book very helpful to me as a professional programmer developing an imaging application in Java.

In addition to showing how images can be created and manipulated using the Java APIs, it also follows sound software engineering methodology. Before presenting the example code, the author first discusses and defines the expected capabilities/requirements of the subsystem that he is building. Next he defines a Java interface that captures those capabilities and finally presents and discusses the code that implements the interface(s). He also discusses Design Patterns where appropriate and makes use of Factory patterns, etc.

This book is packed with information, advice, strategies, and sample code. In this sense the book is a great reference. My only `warning' to potential readers is that this book follows the `big example' paradigm. Chapters are fairly long and each chapter builds a fairly large multi-file example. Later chapters often `extend' classes discussed and developed in earlier chapters. This means that the best approach is probably to read the book through from start to finish if you want a thorough understanding of the examples.

On the plus side, the examples are not `toys.' They are solid well-engineered Java programs that should be useful to anyone serious about work in imaging.