The Perils of Image.getScaledInstance() by Chris Campbell 04/03/2007 Best Frienemies For years, the Java 2D team has been encouraging developers to move away from JDK-1.0-isms like Image.getScaledInstance() and onto more modern APIs. We often make blanket statements like, "oh you don't want to do it that way, here's a better approach" and hope that developers take our word for it. It's a