Display a jpg image on a JPanel

What would be the most appropriate image type to display a jpg image (loaded from a local folder) on a JPanel?

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From stackoverflow

• You could use a javax.swing.ImageIcon and add it to a JLabel using setIcon() method, then add the JLabel to the JPanel.

• I'd probably use an ImageIcon and set it on a JLabel which I'd add to the JPanel.

  Here's Sun's docs on the subject matter.

• ImageIcon image = new ImageIcon("image/pic1.jpg");
  JLabel label = new JLabel("", image, JLabel.CENTER);
  JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
  panel.add( label, BorderLayout.CENTER );
  

• I would use a Canvas that I add to the JPanel, and draw the image on the Canvas. But Canvas is a quite heavy object, sine it is from awt.