Re: Generate Website(HTML) thumbnails on the fly

From:
"aussie" <aussiestaceus@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
27 Mar 2007 06:29:58 -0700
Message-ID:
<1175002198.494567.263700@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 27, 9:00 am, "aussie" <aussiestac...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Our team needs to have a on the fly website thumbnail. I have found
few scripts for php and .net but nothing forjava. Preferably I would
like to set up a servlet that can take url as a parameter and return a
thumbnail image of that website. The only lead I have found on the web
was to use JEditorPane(URL) and then invoking the paint method to a
BufferedImage. AnyJavaGURUs out there who have an idea or an example
on how to do this?

Thanks in advance.


Here is the code used with JeditorPanel
/**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String url = "http://www.google.com";
        try
        {
            //swing stuff
            JFrame someWindow = new JFrame();
          JEditorPane htmlPane = new JEditorPane(url);

          someWindow.setBounds(30, 30, 750, 750);
          htmlPane.setEditable(false);
          someWindow.add(new JScrollPane(htmlPane));
          someWindow.setVisible(true);

          BufferedImage pageImage = new BufferedImage ( 500, 500,
BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB );
          Graphics2D pageGraphics = pageImage.createGraphics();
          htmlPane.paint ( pageGraphics );
          ImageIO.write(pageImage, "jpg", new FileOutputStream("C: \Documents and Settings\\d\\Desktop\\test.jpg"));
        }
        catch(IOException ioe)
        {
          System.err.println("Error displaying " + url);
        }
    }

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