Core Web Programming, Second Edition

10.9. Summary

Java 2D enables the artistic imagination of any programmer to produce high-quality, professional graphics. Java 2D opens the door to numerous possibilities; you can

• Draw or fill any Shape. Simply call the Graphics2D's draw or fill methods with the shape as an argument.

• Take advantage of the setPaint method in the Graphics2D class to paint shapes in solid colors (Color), gradient fills (GradientPaint), or with tiled images (TexturePaint).

• Explore transparent shapes and change mixing rules for joining shapes. Numerous Porter-Duff mixing rules in the AlhpaComposite class define how shapes are combined with the background.

• Break the “one pixel wide” pen boundary and create a BasicStroke to control the width of the pen, create dashing patterns, ...