ImageIO

Class ImageIO

public final class ImageIO
extends Object

A class containing static convenience methods for locating ImageReaders and ImageWriters, and performing simple encoding and decoding.

Methods

scanForPlugins

public static void scanForPlugins()

Scans for plug-ins on the application class path, loads their service provider classes, and registers a service provider instance for each one found with the IIORegistry.

This method is needed because the application class path can theoretically change, or additional plug-ins may become available. Rather than re-scanning the classpath on ev