How do you create a thumbnail image out of a JPEG in Java?

Question

Can someone please help with some code for creating a thumbnail for a JPEG in Java.

I\'m new at this, so a step by step explanation would be appreciated.

Answer 1

the Java code above (with the scale / getCompatibleImage methods) worked great for me, but when I deployed to a server, it stopped working, because the server had no display associated with it -- anyone else with this problem can fix it by using: BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(w, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);

instead of BufferedImage bi = getCompatibleImage(w, h);

and deleting the getCompatibleImage method

(later note -- it turns out this works great for most images, but I got a bunch from my companys marketing department that are 32 bit color depth jpeg images, and the library throws an unsupported image format exception for all of those :( -- imagemagick / jmagick are starting to look more appealing)