How to transfer Image between netbeans platform modules?

Question

What is the best way to transfer images between netbeans platform modules? I thought about BufferedImage, or InputStream or as byte[]??
Now is the page on the disk and I use the File object to get the image, but i feel that this is not the right way. In the future, there is a possibility that the image will be transfered to some server. The image will be used to create the ocr in another module or on the server.

Answer 1

The standard for loosely couple communication in the NetBeans platform is the lookup. An option would be to pass around FileObjects referring to the images.