Displaying .ai files in Java

I've been talking with an artist and she is planning to send me .ai files for a project I'm working on that is using Java for its front end. Unfortunately, I'm having a lot of trouble searching for this issue because search engines are replacing .ai with "a" (even when I specifically say not to) or are searching for artificial intelligence. O开发者_如何学运维bviously neither of those are what I'm looking for.

Is anyone aware of a Java library capable of rendering .ai files as static images?

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.ai file are vector graphics, they shouldn't be used in production. When the final copy of your image is ready your artist should be sending you a .png / .jpg or similar end working file.

.ai stands for Adobe Illustrator and are intended for use only by Illustrator. It's like a developer creating .java files and sending them to a client, it's more likely they'd want a executable jar or a program installer.

Worst case scenario you should install CS5.5 (there's a trial version) and exporting the .ai files to a static file type yourself.