title: Java2d thumbnails. Can I get thumbnail from OS
body: <p>I develop an application in which I want to display a grid with a list of images. For each image I create an instance of a class myImage. MyImage class, extends JCompoment and create an thumbnail and after draw it with overide thepaintCompoment(Graphics g).</p>
  
  <p>All is ok, but in big size images I have a lot of delay to create the thumbnail.</p>
  
  <p>Now I think to when I scan the folders for image(to create the list I said above to create an thumbanail of each image and save it to disc. For each image I will have a database record to save the image path and thumbnail path.So is this a good solution of the problem? 
   Is there a way to get the thumbnails of the system creates for each image, in file manager. Or a more effective solution than I try.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you!!</p>