Hi Ted, It's great if you want to do it that way, but it seems like way too much work to use a Java servlet when PHP is compiled with GD1 or GD2, which will resize, optimize, rotate and do many other image manipulations. I use GD to automatically resize and optimize the images into thumbnails on sites like: http://www.islandproperties-roatan.com (listings and home page featured photos) http://www.travel-to-honduras.com/honduras-pictures-photos.php (photo gallery thumbnails) For GD info: http://www.boutell.com/gd/ Best, Steve www.roatanet.com - Visitors Guide to Roatan and the Bay Islands www.travel-to-honduras.com - Your Travel Guide to Honduras <<Well I'm trying to develop a servlet to manipulate images, mainly create thumbnails, resize images, and perform maybe a few other basic manipulations.>>