First, thanks for your great work. I downloaded the 1.0-SNAPSHOT JAR and I also grabbed SVN and build the project. I then took an old JAI-Swing demo I wrote *way back*, commented out "JAI.create( "fileload", filename )" and replaced it with your " org.apache.commons.imaging.examples.ImageReadExample.imageReadExample(file)". I'm able to open the various TIFF Group 4 images I commonly test with.
I hope to have time this next week play some more with commons-imaging, possibly adapting the rest of that demo--scale, rotate, etc.--to use commons-imaging vs JAI. -- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v, 121-24)
