Floating point image resize?

Question

I can't find any method which allows a floating-point image sizing.
I guess what I need is something like
float x, y, width, height;
g2d.drawImage(image, x, y, 0, width, height, null);
Is such a thing possible in Swing?
I'm animating a shrinking icon and the icon sways slightly from side to size due to inability to resize to n.5 pixels. The alternative I have is to only resize to even numbers of pixels, but this looks very jerky.
Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks, the AffineTransform approach works perfectly, no more wobbling.
The code which works for me is ...
    public static BufferedImage scaleCentered(Image image, float scaleX, float scaleY)
        int type = BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB;
        int width=image.getWidth(null);
        int height=image.getHeight(null);
        BufferedImage result=new BufferedImage(width, height, type);
        Graphics2D g2d = result.createGraphics();
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BICUBIC);
        float centerX=image.getWidth(null) / 2;
        float centerY=image.getHeight(null) / 2;
        AffineTransform transform=new AffineTransform();
        transform.translate(centerX,  centerY);
        transform.scale(scaleX, scaleY);
        transform.translate(-centerX, -centerY);
        g2d.setTransform(transform);
        g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, width, height, null);
        g2d.dispose();
        return result;
    }