Fast tinting of an image.

Hi-- I'm trying to write a program that will have several hundred (or several thousand, if possible) sprites on the screen at a given time. I'm using a double-buffered VolatileImage. Every sprite is a copy of a single simple circle, but each will be a unique color that will be different for every frame. The sprite will also have an alpha component. My question is:
Since there will be so many sprites, I need a fast way (accelerated?) to tint each the sprite the color I need, without eating up oodles of memory. How do I do this? Is there a way to do this with Java? I'd think of using a simple white circle over a black background as an alpha mask for a blank image of the color I need, but it seems that Java2D's code for drawing and filling a box of the desired color is far too slow to draw 1000's of them for each frame. In addition, I want to make use of any availble acceleration for the masking process as well. Any recommendations?
Thanks,
tim

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