Package: javax.imageio
Overview
The main package of the Java Image I/O API.
Many common image I/O operations may be performed using the static
methods of the ImageIO class.
This package contains the basic classes and interfaces for describing
the contents of image files, including metadata and thumbnails
(IIOImage); for controlling the image reading process
(ImageReader, ImageReadParam, and
ImageTypeSpecifier) and image writing process
(ImageWriter and ImageWriteParam); for
performing transcoding between formats (ImageTranscoder),
and for reporting errors (IIOException).
All implementations of javax.imageio provide the following standard image format plug-ins:
