The ImageIO-Ext is an Open Source project that provides extensions, fixes and improvements for the standard Oracle Java Image I/O project such as:

1. Support for the GDAL I/O library
2. Support for reading/writing JPEG2000 files with Kakadu
3. Improved support for reading/writing tiff files
4. A Reader/Writer for JPEG images based on the libjpeg-turbo open source high performance library. More info can be found here
5. A NITF plugin based on NITRO. More info can be found here
6. A new PNG Writer with improved performances. More informations can be found here.

The ImageIO library provides support for encoding/decoding raster formats in Java. Some useful documentation on ImageIO can be found here.

See the documentation below for more information on the ImageIO-Ext project.

Current stable release is 1.3.2. Check this page for additional information on how to download artifacts and binaries.

We have created two public mailing lists for ImageIO-Ext one for Developers and one for Users, you can find their homepages here below:

• ImageIO-Ext Users Group
• ImageIO-Ext Developers Group

We welcome contributions in any form:

• pull requests for new features
• pull requests for bug fixes
• pull requests for documentation
• funding for any combination of the above

Here below you can find links with useful information for working with ImageIO-Ext.

• Documentation
• Releases
• Working with Maven
• Continuous Build

In case you want to enable ECW Decode support, it is mandatory you agree with the ECW Eula. Moreover if you want to support ECW Decode in a Server application you need to BUY a license from ERDAS.

ImageIO-Ext is released partly under LGPL license partly under the BSD license (namely, derivative work from imageio source code). Refer to the code tree for more information.

ImageIO-EXT has been developed by GeoSolutions as an internal effort to provide extensions, fixes and improvements for the standard Oracle Java Image I/O project