Converting an Image object to a BufferedImage object?

Question

I have a BufferedImage object, bi, which I want to resize, hence:
Image image = bi.getScaledInstance(400, 300, Image.SCALE_DEFAULT);
Next I want to encode the resized image to JPEG format. The problem is that inorder to use the JPEGImageEncoder.encode() method, I need to pass it a BufferedImage object. I have looked through the API and cant see a way of converting the Image object to a BufferedImage object.
Can anyone shed some light on this problem?
Any help will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

I copied + pasted the code from:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/problems/ind
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So you propably could use :
int width = 400;
int height = 300;
Image image = bi.getScaledInstance(width, height,
Image.SCALE_DEFAULT);
BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(width, height,
BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics2D biContext = bi.createGraphics();
biContext.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);Greets
PuceThis works fine; but has anybody else noticed this takes an unreasonable amount of time? How to get around this?