Apologies for any ignorance, but I have never worked with jpeg images (let alone any types of images) in Java before.
Supposing I want to send a jpeg image from a we
Two of the possible solutions are downscaling the image, here's how you'd do it:
BufferedImage original = //your image here
scaled = original.getScaledInstance(finalWidth, finalHeight, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH); // scale the image to a smaller one
BufferedImage result = new BufferedImage(finalWidth, finalHeight, original.getType());
Graphics2D g = result.createGraphics();
g.drawImage(scaled, 0, 0, null); //draw the smaller image
g.dispose();
Obviously, you have to calculate the scaled width and height so the image stays by the same aspect ratio.
Once you have drawn it smaller, you can now turn this image into a JPEG file:
BufferedImage image = // this is the final scaled down image
JPEGImageEncoder jpegEncoder = JPEGCodec.createJPEGEncoder(output);
JPEGEncodeParam jpegEncodeParam = jpegEncoder.getDefaultJPEGEncodeParam(image);
jpegEncodeParam.setDensityUnit(JPEGEncodeParam.DENSITY_UNIT_DOTS_INCH);
jpegEncodeParam.setXDensity(92);
jpegEncodeParam.setYDensity(92);
jpegEncodeParam.setQuality( 0.8F , false);
jpegEncoder.encode(image, jpegEncodeParam);
These classes are from the JAI package (more exactly com.sun.image.codec.jpeg) and the JVM might complain that they should not be used directly, but you can ignore that.
You can possibly download JAI from here, if it does not work I have github mirrors setup for the two libraries, JAI core and JAI ImageIO.