ImageScalr Java image scaling library

imgscalr is an very simple and efficient (hardware accelerated) “best-practices” image-scaling library implemented in pure Java 2D; as of the 4.0 release imgscalr now includes a handful of other convenience image operations, all as easy to use as resize.
This library makes  uses of efficient Java2D scaling techniques advocated by the Java2D team which provides hardware accelerated operations on most platforms.