Thumbnailator to create a thumbnail.

Many time for the existing images or new images you have to create a thumbnails. This can be achieved by using the Thumbnailator API. Please refer to the following code to create a thumbnail from the source image. You can specify the thumbnail size and also the background color. Documentation for the Thumbnailator can be found here. You can download the jar file from here.

Code to create thumbnail

 Output of the above program is :

Original image size 1600 x 1200 pixels

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Thumbnail size 60 x 80 pixels

HTML Alert Formatting in Microsoft Outlook

While implementing the HTML alert i have faced an issue where the outlook client (2003/2007/2010) are not shown in the correct format. If you can use the following embedded style class into you alert then it will work fine. I have used the different style will be used for the outlook client and the other web client. 

Note : Embedded style dose not work with the GMail client.


<style type="text/css">
    <!--[if mso]>
    .e-dumm
        {color:#0C74C1}
    a.e-link
        {color:#0C74C1}
    .e-heading
        {font-size:20px;
        color:#0C74C1;
        margin:5px 0}
    .e-subheading
        {font-size:16px;
        color:#A9A9A9;
        margin:0 0 10px 0}
    .e-signature
        {margin-top:25px;
             font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
         font-size:14px;
             line-height: 5px;
         color:#777777;
            }
    .e-signature p
        {
              margin:0px;
            }
    .e-footer
        {margin-top:50px;
            }
    .e-copyright
        {margin-top:5px;
             font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
         font-size:11px;
         color:#777777;
            }
    .e-copyright p{
             margin:0px;
            }
    .e-b-body{margin:10px 0px;
            font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
        font-size:14px;
        color:#777777}
    <![endif]-->
    <!--[if !mso]>
    .e-dumm
        {color:#0C74C1}
    a.e-link
        {color:#0C74C1}
    .e-heading
        {font-size:20px;
        color:#0C74C1;
        margin:5px 0}
    .e-subheading
        {font-size:16px;
        color:#A9A9A9;
        margin:0 0 10px 0}
    .e-signature
        {margin-top:25px;
             font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
         font-size:14px;
             line-height:5px;
         color:#777777;
            }
    .e-footer
        {margin-top:50px;
            }
    .e-copyright
        {margin-top:5px;
             font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
         font-size:11px;
             line-height:5px;
         color:#777777;
            }
    .e-b-body
        {margin:10px 0px;
        font-family:Arial,sans-serif !important;
        font-size:14px !important;
        color:#777777 !important}
    <![endif]-->
</style>