Java 2D: Image rotation

[Mark via JavaKB.com]

I have an Image object that I want to rotate so that in the end, the Image
object IS the rotated image. (I don't want to draw it yet so I don't want
to call graphics2d.drawImage(...) to rotate it with an AffineTransform or
BufferedImageOp; I just want to destructively rotate the Image, so that the
Image file I have is rotated from what it was previously).
Is there a way to do this? -to perform some rotation and then return an
object of type Image?

Thanks much,
Mark