Scale a BufferedImage the fastest and easiest way

Question

The task: I have some images, I scale them down, and join them to one image. But I have a little problem with the implementation:

The concr

Answer 1

None of these answers were fast enough for me. So I finally programmed my own procedure.

static BufferedImage scale(BufferedImage src, int w, int h)
{
  BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(w, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
  int x, y;
  int ww = src.getWidth();
  int hh = src.getHeight();
  for (x = 0; x < w; x++) {
    for (y = 0; y < h; y++) {
      int col = src.getRGB(x * ww / w, y * hh / h);
      img.setRGB(x, y, col);
    }
  }
  return img;
}