I’m working on a photo gallery application running on Java
6 using Tomcat 6,
JQuery for the client side, and images and xml
generated from Picasa. I needed several
sizes of images for thumbnails and animations and I wasn’t about to
create multiple image sizes with Fireworks (I’m a lazy developer).
Doing what every lazy developer does, I search
Google for an image resize solution that would
run on the application server and give me the sizes that I needed and
take the manual work out of the equation. I found several PHP examples
and disjointed Java examples, but no complete solutions. So,
unfortunately I had to do some work to put something together.
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