Question

I’m new to java development, I just want to use javac for my build system. I’m using java to add a feature to a program someone else wrote, specifically involving GeoTiff images.

I found a class online that I would like to use, however I’m having trouble building the class, no matter what I do I get this message:

javac GeoTiffIIOMetadataAdapter.java
GeoTiffIIOMetadataAdapter.java:11: package com.sun.media.imageio.plugins.tiff does not exist
 import com.sun.media.imageio.plugins.tiff.GeoTIFFTagSet;

I’m on RHEL5, so I installed the package I thought I needed, jai-imageio-core.x86_64. But the problem persists. I think that I’m not setting some variable corrently (like -sourcepath or something). I would appreciate any help.

Answer 1

You need to include the jar with -cp or -classpath.

So your compile would be like java -cp "<location to jai_imageio-1.1.jar>" <your java class> .

I think you need this jar file.

You can read more about javac here.