maven im4java_im4java

im4java is (to my knowlegde) the second java interface to

ImageMagick. It is not meant as a replacement for JMagick, but as an

addition.

JMagick is a thin JNI layer above the ImageMagick C-API. im4java in

contrast just generates the commandline for the ImageMagick commands and

passes the generated line to the selected IM-command (using the

java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start()-method).

Disadvantages of the approach: your are limited to the

capabilities of the IM commands. With JMagick, you have access to

the low-level interface of IM and therefore you have a very

detailed control of the processing of images. And you have

better performance.

Advantages of im4java: the interface of the IM commandline is quite

stable, so your java program (and the im4java-library) will work

across many versions of IM. im4java also provides a better OO interface

(the "language" of the IM-commandline with it's postfix-operation

notation translates very easily into OO-notation). And most important:

you can use im4java everywhere JMagick can't be used because of the

JNI hazard (e.g. java application servers).