Hello,

I am trying to use .java.awt.* classes in a headless (server)
environment to draw an image with a transparent background.

Example: web page with yellow background contains an image with a
black line on it.  I don't want the image to contain a white rectangle
around the black line.  The black line has to sit on the yellow
_web_page_ background.

The code snippet below works fine, but creates an image with a white
background.

 BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(IMAGE_CANVAS_WIDTH,
                                         IMAGE_CANVAS_HEIGHT,
                                         BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
 Graphics2D g2 = image.createGraphics();

 // fill background
 g2d.setColor(Color.white);
 g2d.fillRect(0, 0, IMAGE_CANVAS_WIDTH, IMAGE_CANVAS_HEIGHT);

I tried setting the Color to new Color(255, 255, 255, 255) and also
0,0,0,0, and neither worked.  I can set the background to various
combinations of RGB, but I can't get the background to become
transparent.

Is there a way to do this in a non-Swing environment?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!