Convert JPG to 256 color GIF

Is there any existing class file to convert a JPG to 256 color GIF?
I tried some free src from there:
http://www.geocities.com/marcoschmidt.geo/java-image-coding.html
But seems that all throrw exception if the image got more than 256 colors, since my server is not using JDK.1.3x, so I can't use Java Media Framework.
Any good suggestion?

GIF files only support up to 256 unique colors, so you need to reduce the number of colors used in your images -- a process called quantization. This will result in a degradation of quality, but the result is usually acceptable.
See the discussion here for a link to a decent quantizer:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=31&thread=327240

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