java.awt.image.renderable (Java Platform SE 8 )
Keywords: java.awt.image.renderable package
Date: 2026-04-17

# Package java.awt.image.renderable

Provides classes and interfaces for producing rendering-independent images.

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- Interface Summary
  Interface | Description
  --- | ---
  ContextualRenderedImageFactory | ContextualRenderedImageFactory provides an interface for the functionality that may differ between instances of RenderableImageOp.
  RenderableImage | A RenderableImage is a common interface for rendering-independent images (a notion which subsumes resolution independence).
  RenderedImageFactory | The RenderedImageFactory interface (often abbreviated RIF) is intended to be implemented by classes that wish to act as factories to produce different renderings, for example by executing a series of BufferedImageOps on a set of sources, depending on a specific set of parameters, properties, and rendering hints.

- Class Summary
  Class | Description
  --- | ---
  ParameterBlock | A `ParameterBlock` encapsulates all the information about sources and parameters (Objects) required by a RenderableImageOp, or other classes that process images.
  RenderableImageOp | This class handles the renderable aspects of an operation with help from its associated instance of a ContextualRenderedImageFactory.
  RenderableImageProducer | An adapter class that implements ImageProducer to allow the asynchronous production of a RenderableImage.
  RenderContext | A RenderContext encapsulates the information needed to produce a specific rendering from a RenderableImage.

## Package java.awt.image.renderable Description

Provides classes and interfaces for producing rendering-independent images.

Since:
  1.2

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