Image/BufferedImage - PNG - Stream - Database?

Question

I'm capturing an Image via clipboard paste action on a JTextArea, this part works fine.
1. I need to convert this image to a PNG format to...
2. store the PNG encoded image into a database using a PreparedStatement, that requires an InputStream.
The question is then, is it possible to go from a standard java Image, to a PNG encoded image, then to a memory mapped stream/file so that I can invoke the usual:
// where 's' is a PreparedStatement
s.setBinaryStream( x, inputStream, size );
The goal is to avoid writing the image to file.. Is this possible?
So in other words:
public void storeImage( Image image ){
  // need to fill in the blank here --- imaginary :
  // image.magicallyConvertToPNG();
  // InputStream is = image.getMagicalInputStream();
  PreparedStatement s = mysql.prepareStatement( INSERT_SQL );
  s.setBinaryStream( 1, is, size );
  s.executeUpdate();
  s.close();
  mysql.close();
}Ridiculous code aside, I hope this conveys the intention!
Thanks!

Answer 1

While I'm surprised that BufferedImage is giving you problems, the standard way to draw BufferedImage is to call:
drawRenderedImage(RenderedImage im, AffineTransform xform)
The AffineTransform lets you scale and translate the image.