What is the best way to scale images in Java?

Question

I have a web application written in Java (Spring, Hibernate/JPA, Struts2) where users can upload images and store them in the file system. I would like to scale those images

Answer 1

Found this to be faster:

public static BufferedImage getScaledInstance(final BufferedImage img, final int targetWidth, final int targetHeight,
                                              final Object hint) {
    final int type = BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB;
    int drawHeight = targetHeight;
    int drawWidth = targetWidth;
    final int imageWidth = img.getWidth();
    final int imageHeight = img.getHeight();
    if ((imageWidth <= targetWidth) && (imageHeight <= targetHeight)) {
        logger.info("Image " + imageWidth + "/" + imageHeight + " within desired scale");
        return img;
    }
    final double sar = ((double) imageWidth) / ((double) imageHeight);
    if (sar != 0) {
        final double tar = ((double) targetWidth) / ((double) targetHeight);
        if ((Math.abs(tar - sar) > .001) && (tar != 0)) {
            final boolean isSoureWider = sar > (targetWidth / targetHeight);
            if (isSoureWider) {
                drawHeight = (int) (targetWidth / sar);
            }
            else {
                drawWidth = (int) (targetHeight * sar);
            }
        }
    }
    logger.info("Scaling image from " + imageWidth + "/" + imageHeight + " to " + drawWidth + "/" + drawHeight);
    final BufferedImage result = new BufferedImage(drawWidth, drawHeight, type);
    try {
        final Graphics2D g2 = result.createGraphics();
        try {
            if (hint != null) {
                g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, hint);
            }
            g2.drawImage(img, 0, 0, drawWidth, drawHeight, null);
        }
        finally {
            g2.dispose();
        }
        return result;
    }
    finally {
        result.flush();
    }
}