Java image reading -- Help me rewrite this code

[Manish Hatwalne]

I am using following code instead of ImageIO.read() as we have older Java
version and it gives dark image as specified in Java bug (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6372769). It has been
working fine till now, however recently it started throwing exception for
certain photos -

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid ICC Profile Data

When I searched, I found that it is yet another Java bug -
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6404011

We **cannot** change the Java version on our server. So I have to figure out
workaround for the following code --

    
public static BufferedImage read(File file) throws IOException {
        BufferedImage image = null;
        ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(file);
        if (iis == null) {
            throw new IOException("File not found");
        }
        Iterator<ImageReader> iir = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis);
        boolean looking = true;
        ImageReader reader = null;
        ImageReadParam param = null;
        while(looking && iir.hasNext()) {
            reader = iir.next();
            reader.setInput(iis);
            param = reader.getDefaultReadParam();
            Iterator it = reader.getImageTypes(0);
            
            while (looking && it.hasNext()) {
                ImageTypeSpecifier type = (ImageTypeSpecifier) it.next();
                ColorSpace cs = type.getColorModel().getColorSpace();
                if ( cs.isCS_sRGB() ) {
                    param.setDestinationType(type);
                    looking = false;
                }   
                if ( cs.getType() != ColorSpace.TYPE_RGB ) {
                    looking = false;
                }
            }
        }
        if (reader != null) {
            image = reader.read(0, param);
        }
        return image;
    }
}

How can I rewrite the code to do what I desire (read an image) by ignoring
this exception??? I tried to enclose the Exception throwing line & loop below that in try-catch block, but for some weird reason, it simply hangs the JVM and I am lost -- how do I fix this? I am not an image expert and hence finding it difficult to decide how to come up with a workaround!!

Any help, pointers would be highly appreciated!!

TIA,
- Manish

[Ulf Dittmer]

The bug you linked to contains a workaround - does that work for you? If so, you could use it in case the ImageIO code throws an exception.

[Manish Hatwalne]

Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
The bug you linked to contains a workaround - does that work for you? If so, you could use it in case the ImageIO code throws an exception.

Ulf, if it means stripping meta-data using linux/windows tools, it is not feasible on our system. As for using JPEGImageDecoder - it doesn't work for me either as it gives exception -

 com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.ImageFormatException: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x59 0x68
        at sun.awt.image.codec.JPEGImageDecoderImpl.readJPEGStream(Native Method)
        at sun.awt.image.codec.JPEGImageDecoderImpl.decodeAsBufferedImage(JPEGImageDecoderImpl.java:210)
    

Any other suggestion?

[Ulf Dittmer]

The bug also mentions using the JAI API to read the file, and then saving it back to disk (or maybe whatever JAI produces can be used directly?).