Is there a simple way to compare BufferedImage instances?

Question

I am working on part of a Java application that takes an image as a byte array, reads it into a java.awt.image.BufferedImage instance and passes it to a third-p

Answer 1

I can't think of anything besides a brute force "do loop":

  BufferedImage bi1, bi2, ...
   ...
  Raster r1 = bi1.getData();
  DataBuffer db1 = r1.getDataBuffer();
  if (db1.getSize() != db2.getSize ())
     ...
  for (int i = 0; i < db1.getSize(); i++) {  
    int px = db1.getElem(i);
  }