Java™ Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization

Immediate Mode Imaging Model

Because the Image class was primarily set up for asynchronous handling of image data, many times it cannot easily provide the functionality required for advanced image processing tasks. For this reason, we've been using PixelGrabbers to collect all the data before processing it. For simple processing this worked well, but as things became more complex, we required Rasters, ColorModels, and a series of other classes necessary for data storage and interpretation. In practice, this extra code not only can make your software more difficult to write and understand, but it can also provide opportunities for software errors to occur. For these reasons, the immediate mode imaging model and its associated classes were developed ...