BMP to GIF/JPEG Saver

Hi All,
Please Help me out in this matter , the problem is i have BMP data savedin a RDBMS in BLOB format , i want it read and convert it to GIF or JPEG fromat , since the files are too large in size . So it can reduce the size and i have to transfer the file over the SOCKET
IF ANY ONE CAN HELP ME OUT IN THIS MATTER I WILL BE GREATEFULL TO HIM.
REGARDS
Khalid

1) I hate images in databases
2) Can you do the conversion via an external tool (Photoshop etc) before you put it in the database?
Someone pointed out the Jimi API available at the Sun Java site. I'll go have a look...

Yup, here