| Package | Description | 
|---|---|
| java.applet | Provides the classes necessary to create an applet and the classes an applet
uses to communicate with its applet context. | 
| java.awt | Contains all of the classes for creating user
interfaces and for painting graphics and images. | 
| java.awt.image | Provides classes for creating and modifying images. | 
| java.awt.image.renderable | Provides classes and interfaces for producing
rendering-independent images. | 
| javax.imageio | The main package of the Java Image I/O API. | 
| javax.imageio.event | A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with synchronous
notification of events during the reading and writing of images. | 
| javax.imageio.spi | A package of the Java Image I/O API containing the plug-in interfaces
for readers, writers, transcoders, and streams, and a runtime
registry. | 
| javax.swing | Provides a set of "lightweight"
(all-Java language) components that,
to the maximum degree possible, work the same on all platforms. | 
| javax.swing.colorchooser | Contains classes and interfaces used by the  JColorChoosercomponent. | 
| javax.swing.plaf.basic | Provides user interface objects built according to the
Basic look and feel. | 
| javax.swing.plaf.metal | Provides user interface objects built according to
the Java look and feel (once codenamed Metal),
which is the default look and feel. | 
| javax.swing.table | Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with
 javax.swing.JTable. | 
| javax.swing.text | Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable
and noneditable text components. | 
| javax.swing.tree | Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with
 javax.swing.JTree. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| BufferedImage | The  BufferedImagesubclass describes anImagewith an accessible buffer of image data. | 
| BufferedImageOp | This interface describes single-input/single-output
 operations performed on  BufferedImageobjects. | 
| BufferStrategy | The  BufferStrategyclass represents the mechanism with which
 to organize complex memory on a particularCanvasorWindow. | 
| ColorModel | The  ColorModelabstract class encapsulates the
 methods for translating a pixel value to color components
 (for example, red, green, and blue) and an alpha component. | 
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
| ImageProducer | The interface for objects which can produce the image data for Images. | 
| Raster | A class representing a rectangular array of pixels. | 
| RenderedImage | RenderedImage is a common interface for objects which contain
 or can produce image data in the form of Rasters. | 
| VolatileImage | VolatileImage is an image which can lose its
 contents at any time due to circumstances beyond the control of the
 application (e.g., situations caused by the operating system or by
 other applications). | 
| WritableRaster | This class extends Raster to provide pixel writing capabilities. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| BufferedImage | The  BufferedImagesubclass describes anImagewith an accessible buffer of image data. | 
| BufferedImageOp | This interface describes single-input/single-output
 operations performed on  BufferedImageobjects. | 
| ColorModel | The  ColorModelabstract class encapsulates the
 methods for translating a pixel value to color components
 (for example, red, green, and blue) and an alpha component. | 
| ComponentSampleModel | This class represents image data which is stored such that each sample
  of a pixel occupies one data element of the DataBuffer. | 
| DataBuffer | This class exists to wrap one or more data arrays. | 
| ImageConsumer | The interface for objects expressing interest in image data through
 the ImageProducer interfaces. | 
| ImageFilter | This class implements a filter for the set of interface methods that
 are used to deliver data from an ImageProducer to an ImageConsumer. | 
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
| ImageProducer | The interface for objects which can produce the image data for Images. | 
| IndexColorModel | The  IndexColorModelclass is aColorModelclass that works with pixel values consisting of a
 single sample that is an index into a fixed colormap in the default
 sRGB color space. | 
| Kernel | The  Kernelclass defines a matrix that describes how a
 specified pixel and its surrounding pixels affect the value
 computed for the pixel's position in the output image of a filtering
 operation. | 
| LookupTable | This abstract class defines a lookup table object. | 
| PackedColorModel | The  PackedColorModelclass is an abstractColorModelclass that works with pixel values which represent
 color and alpha information as separate samples and which pack all
 samples for a single pixel into a single int, short, or byte quantity. | 
| Raster | A class representing a rectangular array of pixels. | 
| RasterOp | This interface describes single-input/single-output
 operations performed on Raster objects. | 
| RenderedImage | RenderedImage is a common interface for objects which contain
 or can produce image data in the form of Rasters. | 
| ReplicateScaleFilter | An ImageFilter class for scaling images using the simplest algorithm. | 
| SampleModel | This abstract class defines an interface for extracting samples of pixels
  in an image. | 
| TileObserver | An interface for objects that wish to be informed when tiles
 of a WritableRenderedImage become modifiable by some writer via
 a call to getWritableTile, and when they become unmodifiable via
 the last call to releaseWritableTile. | 
| WritableRaster | This class extends Raster to provide pixel writing capabilities. | 
| WritableRenderedImage | WriteableRenderedImage is a common interface for objects which
 contain or can produce image data in the form of Rasters and
 which can be modified and/or written over. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ImageConsumer | The interface for objects expressing interest in image data through
 the ImageProducer interfaces. | 
| ImageProducer | The interface for objects which can produce the image data for Images. | 
| RenderedImage | RenderedImage is a common interface for objects which contain
 or can produce image data in the form of Rasters. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| BufferedImage | The  BufferedImagesubclass describes anImagewith an accessible buffer of image data. | 
| ColorModel | The  ColorModelabstract class encapsulates the
 methods for translating a pixel value to color components
 (for example, red, green, and blue) and an alpha component. | 
| Raster | A class representing a rectangular array of pixels. | 
| RenderedImage | RenderedImage is a common interface for objects which contain
 or can produce image data in the form of Rasters. | 
| SampleModel | This abstract class defines an interface for extracting samples of pixels
  in an image. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| BufferedImage | The  BufferedImagesubclass describes anImagewith an accessible buffer of image data. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| RenderedImage | RenderedImage is a common interface for objects which contain
 or can produce image data in the form of Rasters. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ImageConsumer | The interface for objects expressing interest in image data through
 the ImageProducer interfaces. | 
| ImageFilter | This class implements a filter for the set of interface methods that
 are used to deliver data from an ImageProducer to an ImageConsumer. | 
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
| RGBImageFilter | This class provides an easy way to create an ImageFilter which modifies
 the pixels of an image in the default RGB ColorModel. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ImageObserver | An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about
 Image information as the Image is constructed. | 
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