Java Utililty Methods ImageIcon Create

return new ImageIcon(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(resourcePath));

return (url != null) ? new ImageIcon(url) : null;

ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon(url, description);
if (w != null && h != null) {
    imageIcon = new ImageIcon(imageIcon.getImage().getScaledInstance(w, h, java.awt.Image.SCALE_SMOOTH));
return imageIcon;

ImageIcon icon = createImageIcon(classloader, path, description);
JLabel label = new JLabel(text, icon, JLabel.LEFT);
return label;

javax.swing.ImageIcon[] rv = new javax.swing.ImageIcon[images.length];
int i = 0;
for (java.awt.Image image : images) {
    rv[i] = createImageIcon(image);
    i++;
return rv;

if (icon instanceof ImageIcon) {
    ImageIcon imageIcon = (ImageIcon) icon;
    return imageIcon.getImage();
} else {
    Image image = new BufferedImage(icon.getIconWidth(), icon.getIconHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) image.getGraphics();
    icon.paintIcon(null, g2, 0, 0);
    icon = new ImageIcon(image);
...

URL url = System.class.getResource(path);
if (url == null) {
    System.err.println("Unable to load image: " + path);
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(url);
return icon;

ImageIcon lImageIcon = null;
BufferedImage lBufferedImage = ImageIO.read(file);
if (lBufferedImage != null) {
    BufferedImage lBufferedImageResized = resizeImage(lBufferedImage, width, height);
    lImageIcon = new ImageIcon(lBufferedImageResized);
return lImageIcon;

if (icon instanceof ImageIcon) {
    return (ImageIcon) icon;
} else {
    return new ImageIcon(createImage(icon));

return new ImageIcon(getScaledImage(new ImageIcon(resource).getImage(), width, height));