Luke Gorrie

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what words do you use when the picture is in the wrong format? Not exactly a Zen koan, but a valid question whose answer is JIMI, the Java Image Management Interface from Activated Intelligence. JIMI is a toolkit for reading, writing, viewing and manipulating images in multiple-graphics file formats. JIMI supports an impressive number of image formats, but if your target format is not supported, JIMI's open design allows you to add your format while taking advantage of key JIMI features. As you'd hope and expect, JIMI is platform-neutral 100% Pure Java that works with Java l.0.x and 1.1.x, and with the current beta versions of Java 1.2. This article will let you know if JIMI has the features that will lighten your load and tighten your code. The "Overview" section examines JIMI's major features and identifies how JIMI can fit i... (more)