How do you read an image in Java when Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit() throws an AWTError?

Question

I am reading image files in Java using ``` java.awt.Image img = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(filePath); ``` On some systems this doesn't work, it instead throws an AWTError complaining about sun/awt/motif/MToolkit. How else can you create a java.awt.Image object from an image file?

Accepted Answer

I read images using ImageIO.

```
Image i = ImageIO.read(InputStream in);
```

The javadoc will offer more info as well.

How do you read an image in Java when Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit() throws an AWTError?

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