The ImageIO-Ext project provides extensions, fixes and improvements for the standard Java ImageIO library such as:
- support the GDAL I/O library
- support for reading/writing JPEG2000 files with Kakadu
- improved support for reading/writing tiff files
Releases, along with the required native binary packages, can be found here: http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/github/imageio-ext/releases/1.1.X/