Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) is a Java platform extension API that provides a set of object-oriented interfaces that support a simple, high-level programming model which allows developers to create their own image manipulation routines without the additional cost or licensing restrictions, associated with commercial image processing software.

JAI is provided as a free download directly from Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

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 for the Windows

Microsoft Windows

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, Solaris

Solaris Operating System

Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. It superseded their earlier SunOS in 1993. Oracle Solaris, as it is now known, has been owned by Oracle Corporation since Oracle's acquisition of Sun in January 2010....

, and Linux

Linux

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 platforms. Apple Inc. provides a Mac OS X

Mac OS X

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 version of the API from their website for Mac OS X v10.3

Mac OS X v10.3

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; Mac OS X v10.4

Mac OS X v10.4

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 ships with it preinstalled.

While the API is provided in Java

Java (programming language)

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, platform-specific

Platform-specific model

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 implementations can either use the pure Java implementation or provide an implementation that takes advantage of native

Native mode

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technology on the platform to provide better performance.

External links

• Java Advanced Imaging Website
• Java Advanced Imaging Image IO Website
• Apache Sanselan - a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats