Imaging Software Glossary: Terms & Concepts: J-K
The imaging software glossary provides definitions for document and web imaging, in addition to terminology specific to Snowbound Software’s imaging technology.
| JAR file | A JAR file contains the class, image, and sound files for a Java applet. They are all gathered and compressed into a single file for faster downloading. Combining the class files into a JAR file is more efficient than letting the Virtual Machine download the classes individually from the webserver on demand. Jar files can be created and extracted using the jar command that comes with the JDK or with zip tools. |
| JAVA | The Java platform is the name for a computing environment, or platform, from Sun Microsystems which can run applications developed using the Java programming language and set of development tools. In this case, the platform is not a specific hardware or operating system, but rather an execution engine called a virtual machine, and a set of standard libraries which provide common functionality. Java is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. Snowbound's VirtualViewer web viewers and RasterMaster for Java are all built on 100% Java. |
| JPEG Interleave Factor | The JPEG interleave factor decimates the blue and red chroma planes when writing out a JPEG image. It specifies how many pixels to skip in the X and Y direction when compressing the image. |
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