Could not initialize class javax.imageio.ImageIO

Question

I\'m trying to deploy a Spring web app to a Tomcat 7 running on a production environment on Windows Azure (tried Ubuntu and Windows Datacenter VM). Sadly, I get an error whi

Answer 1

Got fixed for me by adding following JVM option.

JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dawt.toolkit=sun.awt.HToolkit"