Originally posted by Dirk Schreckmann:
Welcome to JavaRanch, Rolf!
That sounds like a strange and frustrating problem in deed.
When you're speaking of Windows 2000 and the SP3 installation, is it correct to assume that this is the OS running on the client that is having the problem?
Any chance you could post an example Applet on a server some place that others could take a look at and let you know of their experiences?
Thanks for the response, Dirk!
Yes, you're correct in that the client is running the Win2000 SP3, and I suspect that there is some kind of problem with the comibation Win2000 SP3, JBuilder 6.0, JRE 1.4.0-beta3. When I view the JAR file on the PC, I can see all my icon files there with proper names and directories and all. But the my "ImageLoader" class cannot find it. I have so far settled for actually installing the GIF files on the server, but I would really like to avoid that. It makes updating the JAVA code much harder.
About the server: I have tried the applet in several ways: (1) Running from JBuilder- icons&jar works OK

, (2) Running by double-clicking the HTML-file on my PC - icons&jar does NOT WORK

, (3) Serving the Applet from a Apache server running on my PC - icons&jar does NOT WORK

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and finally (4) Serving the Applet from the HTTP server on my NETOS based embedded system - icons&jar does NOT WORK
The applet itself cannot be used on any server, it's for an embedded system and requires that system to run properly. I'll try to make a simpler version of the applet that only illustrates the icon problem.
Regards, Rolf