Java Utililty Methods BufferedImage Load

URL imgUrl = ClassLoader.getSystemResource(path);
Image img = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(imgUrl);
return img;

Image image = null;
if (cache.containsKey(path)) {
    return cache.get(path);
try {
    image = ImageIO.read(new File(path));
    if (!cache.containsKey(path)) {
        cache.put(path, image);
...

if (PREFER_TOOLKIT) {
    return Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(ClassLoader.getSystemResource(resourceName));
} else {
    try (InputStream input = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream(resourceName)) {
        return (input == null) ? null : ImageIO.read(input);

InputStream stream = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(url);
Image image = ImageIO.read(stream);
return image;

BufferedImage image = null;
try {
    image = ImageIO.read(resource);
} catch (IOException e) {
return image;

MediaTracker tracker = new MediaTracker(new java.awt.Container());
Image img = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(url);
tracker.addImage(img, 0);
tracker.waitForAll();
return img;

int w = image.getWidth();
int h = image.getHeight();
int[] pixels = image.getRGB(0, 0, w, h, null, 0, w);
return pixels;

BufferedImage bi = null;
double[] arr = null;
try {
    File f = new File(name);
    bi = ImageIO.read(f);
    int w = bi.getWidth(null);
    int h = bi.getHeight(null);
    arr = new double[w * h];
...

try {
    ByteArrayInputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
    BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(is);
    is.close();
    return image;
} catch (IOException e) {
    throw new RuntimeException(e);

try {
    return ImageIO.read(f);
} catch (IOException e) {
    System.out.println("Couldn't load image " + f.getPath());
    e.printStackTrace();
return null;