Tim Williams wrote: > Helena Edelson wrote: > > > > Just wondering since Java was mentioned, will you be coding this in xml > > for Forrest or do you need something in Java for Cocoon? > > something using JPEGCodec, JPEGImageEncoder, MediaTracker, Graphics2D, > > Resize, etc? > > > > My experience is that uploading the full images and using software/code to > > generate the thumbnail on the server is memory intensive, although I am not > > familiar with the readers mentioned by Tim. I know of a dll that resizes on > > the server on upload but who runs windoz servers anyway.
Helena, Cocoon already has various compoments for handling images. See some basic demos here ... http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/demos/release/samples/imagereader/ Tim, there is a patch for a new "imageop" block sitting in Cocoon Jira which might be of interest. http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1301 -David > Hi Helena, > Yeah, I was talking about extending the ImageReader, which already > handles the resizing, to just write the newly resized image to disk. > I want this because of the memory intensiveness you've mentioned. It > turns it into essentially a one-time (hopefully non-cached) cost, then > subsequent requests are read straight from disk instead of resizing > yet again. I think this is a reasonable medium between pre-generating > everything and dynamically generating everything. > --tim
