API or plugin for imagemagick

[paulohess]

Hi

I was wondering if someone can help me with this. I am trying to use some of the feature that imagemagick offers such as "convert -resize ..."
and etc from WITHIN my application.

Currently the way I do it is that I launch a process and the imagemagick command is passed to it and get executed.

for example :

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("convert -resize 300x250");

This works just fine except that it is very slow for obviouse reasons (launching and executing an external process ... )

Is there any way that I can impart only some functionalities from imagemagick (like an API or plugin ) to my program so that it
becomes part of my code to avoid making external calls.

Thanks
Paulo

[anthony]

What language?

[paulohess]

java