Problems importing JAI in Eclipse

Question

I'm trying to use the following import in Eclipse running on Mac OS X 10.6:

import javax.media.jai.JAI;

Unfortunately, this doesn't work, instead I get the following message:

"Access restriction: The type JAI is not accessible due to restriction on required library /System/Library/Java/Extensions/jai_core.jar"

How can this be resolved? I want to use JAI.create("fileload", "filename");

The file permissions in the folder Extensions:

$ ls -l
total 20536
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel     6470  6 Jan 19:20 AppleScriptEngine.jar
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel    12838 23 Apr 18:16 MRJToolkit.jar
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel   938700  3 Mar 01:41 QTJava.zip
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel    17786 11 Feb 13:49 dns_sd.jar
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  1223487 21 Jul  2009 j3daudio.jar
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  1157342 21 Jul  2009 j3dcore.jar
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel   685292 21 Jul  2009 j3dutils.jar
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel   275486 18 May  2009 jai_codec.jar
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  1544537 18 May  2009 jai_core.jar
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel   106688  6 Jan 19:20 libAppleScriptEngine.jnilib
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel   427632 21 Jul  2009 libJ3D.jnilib
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel   733280 21 Jul  2009 libJ3DAudio.jnilib
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel    50880 21 Jul  2009 libJ3DUtils.jnilib
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  1004544  3 Mar 01:44 libQTJNative.jnilib
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel    50352 23 Dec 10:25 libShark.jnilib
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  9959424 18 May  2009 libmlib_jai.jnilib
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel    41239 18 May  2009 mlibwrapper_jai.jar
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel   127628 21 Jul  2009 vecmath.jar

A quick fix can be found here: http://lkamal.blogspot.com/2008/09/eclipse-access-restriction-on-library.html (However, it's more of a work-around...)

Answer 1

You might check file's the permissions. Here's what 10.5 looks like:

$ ls -l /System/Library/Java/Extensions/jai_core.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1893836 May 31  2008 /System/Library/Java/Extensions/jai_core.jar