Building Imaging Applications With Java Technology: Using Awt Imaging, Java 2d and Java Advanced Imaging Jai

By Lawrence H. Rodrigues

This volume provides in-depth coverage of the Java Advanced Imaging APIs, which should allow the reader to build advanced graphics and imaging applications with the Java 2 platform. It provides... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201700743
• ISBN13: 9780201700749
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Length: 857 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Indispensable

I love this book; I was tempted to write this review since I saw a few negative comments by others that might put a potential purchaser off, and I would not want that. As someone who both develops and specifies medical imaging applications in Java and other languages, I buy every book that has anything to do with the subject, and this is the one that I find most helpful and the one that I refer to most, even after all these years of using it. This is NOT a book dedicated to JAI, however, and it pre-dates the JIIO stuff, so you will still need the Sun material for that, as others have pointed out. It is also very elegantly presented and produced, for those who appreciate the aesthetics of a book as well as its content. David

Outstanding

This is a really neat book. Lots of very cool useful working examples. It's hard to put this book down. I really like how the author steps you through the code after each example. Even a novice like me can understand most of it. My only complaint is the code has almost no comments. He makes up for it in the book however. His coding style is also very clean and logical. This book was designed for J2SE 1.3.

Excellent all around coverage of image processing in Java

The book provides a complete coverage of image display, menipulation and processing using AWT, JAI etc. The books is well written and provides a step by step approach to get people started on java applications from a simple image viewer to fairly advanced handling of image data. While providing valuable insight into the subject of image handling a sound software engineering framework is at the same time used, incl regular java libraries, beans, applets etc. Overall the readers is given a solid introduction to these issues. From the material presented the readers gets a good sense for how one might expand the techniques into professional applications. If you plan to use imaging as part of a real application this is a must read to see the many potential approaches to a particular problem. In addition to presenting the java-image facilities the authors also provides a reasonable introduction to basic topics such as color space, image filtering, image formats, etc. Thus a minimum of prior experience is needed. If you are a long-term expert in image processing you might still find good guidance here. I.e. there is something for everyone here.

A Thorough and Practical Treatment of Imaging in Java

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.

A Great Book

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.