JPEG-compressed TIFFs don’t work with Tomcat 7

[matthias-ronge]

When using JPEG-compressed TIFF images, no image is being shown in the metadata editor.

Here are some of the stack traces occurring:

ERROR 2016-07-25 15:49:11,750 de.sub.goobi.metadaten.Metadaten.BildErmitteln(Metadaten.java:1746)
        javax.media.jai.util.ImagingException: All factories fail for the operation "Stream"
Error: One factory fails for the operation "tiff"
Occurs in: javax.media.jai.ThreadSafeOperationRegistry
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor698.invoke(Unknown Source)
[…]
    at javax.media.jai.RenderedOp.createInstance(RenderedOp.java:781)
    at de.unigoettingen.sub.commons.contentlib.imagelib.ImageManipulator.scaleNextNeighbor(ImageManipulator.java:226)
    at de.unigoettingen.sub.commons.contentlib.imagelib.ImageManager.scaleImageByPixel(ImageManager.java:407)
    at de.unigoettingen.sub.commons.contentlib.imagelib.ImageManager.scaleImageByPixel(ImageManager.java:263)
    at de.unigoettingen.sub.commons.contentlib.imagelib.ImageManager.scaleImageByPixel(ImageManager.java:223)
    at de.sub.goobi.metadaten.MetadatenImagesHelper.scaleFile(MetadatenImagesHelper.java:375)
[…]
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/image/codec/jpeg/JPEGCodec
    at com.sun.media.jai.codecimpl.TIFFImage.<init>(TIFFImage.java:746)
    at com.sun.media.jai.codecimpl.TIFFImageDecoder.decodeAsRenderedImage(TIFFImageDecoder.java:112)
    at com.sun.media.jai.opimage.CodecRIFUtil.create(CodecRIFUtil.java:96)
    at com.sun.media.jai.opimage.TIFFRIF.create(TIFFRIF.java:53)
    ... 86 more

The class ImageManipulator as part of ics-1.1.5.jar makes use of Java Advanced Imaging (jai_core-1.1.2_01.jar) which tries to call functionality from the com.sun.image.codec.jpeg package which has been removed in Java 1.7. Cf. Java SE 7 and JDK 7 Compatibility:

Some APIs in the sun.* packages have changed. These APIs are not intended for use by developers. Developers importing from sun.* packages do so at their own risk. For more details, see Why Developers Should Not Write Programs That Call sun.* Packages.

[henning-gerhardt]

Does this happen even with uncompressed tif files or only with JPEG compressed tif files?

[matthias-ronge]

No, the problem occurs only for JPEG-compressed TIFFs.

[henning-gerhardt]

I will label this as bug. But as we don't have source files for ics-1.1.5.jar I see no way for a fast solution.

[matthias-ronge]

Java Advanced Imaging API 1.1.2_01 already is the latest release. As to my above findings, I consider it broken in Java 7 onwards.

Reading of images can be done using javax.imageio.ImageIO, but it does not support TIFF out of the box. However, the TwelveMonkeys library provides a TIFF reader (and many others) to be used with ImageIO to read (and write) a lot of image formats. It’s licensed under the BSD 3-clause license which is compatible with GPL.

BTW, the way of writing temporary image files into the web application directory to expose their content via HTTP can be considered a mistake, too. If this gets rewritten, <p:graphicImage> should be used to handle this.