"javax.sound.midi.InvalidMidiDataException: cannot get soundbank from stream" after java update

[Poorav Chaudhari]

I am noticing this error since I did the Mac update. The Mac update included the java update. Right now the java version is 1.6.0_31. My Mac OS X version is 10.7.3. I am seeing the problem for all the soundfont files that I am trying to load. The error i get is.

javax.sound.midi.InvalidMidiDataException: cannot get soundbank from stream
at javax.sound.midi.MidiSystem.getSoundbank(MidiSystem.java:565)
at myPackage.MyMusicApp.main(MyMusicApp.java:14)

Below is a small program I built that shows the code.

package myPackage;

import java.io.File;

import javax.sound.midi.*;

public class MyMusicApp {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		try {
			Synthesizer synth = MidiSystem.getSynthesizer(); synth.open();
			File f =  new File("/Users/poorav/eclipseGIT/myApp/soundbanks/1247_KitDRY.sf2");
			Soundbank soundbank = MidiSystem.getSoundbank( f);
			synth.loadAllInstruments(soundbank);
		} catch (Exception e) 
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

I am not sure what the previous build of java I was on, but i know that it was a 1.6 version. Any ideas of what could have caused this?

thanks