Thanks. I saw that, too. Some libraries must be purchased for it to work.

I've done a lot of image stuff with VB6, but not with java. Most of what I
found is dated 1996 and 1997 and pages aren't there anymore. Something more
current would be better.

Two promising URLs are:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2000/jw-0505-servlets.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-1998/jw-09-media.html

my google was:
(convert OR conversion) (image OR imaging) java -applet

 I am working on a catalogue system that is intended to answer
 such queries. It has a page for TIFF, indeed:

http://purl.net/stefan_ram/garnoo/XOCONCEPTXSNOTATIONXSYTYIYFYF

 This page lists all systems that can read or write TIFF
 known to the system.

 For the convenience of readers who do not want to
 visit the above page: The systems listed are:

   - »Java Imaging Utilities« and
   - »ImageJ«.

 (This system can be extended by user data submitted in a
 special text file format, details are available on request.)

 Of course, there also is the well-known page by Marco Schmidt:

http://schmidt.devlib.org/java/image-io-libraries.html