I pulled this directly from the "How to Use
Icons" portion of the Swing tutorial:<br><br>ImageIcon
icon = null;<br>URL iconURL =
ClassLoader.getSystemResource("images/middle.gif");<br>if (iconURL != null)
{<br> icon = new
ImageIcon(iconURL, "an icon");<br>}<br><br>This should work because
any JARs loaded through Java Web Start should be part
of the classpath (as far as I understand
it).

If you want to use the newfile.gif out of the jar
file to use else where, you can just use WinZip to
extract it.... jar  files are just fancy zip files which
winzip can extract.<br><br>Like Anthony said, since the
jar file  is in the class path when you install... if
you just want to use it from the jar file, use his
example.<br><br>Stephen McConnell<br>http://www.crosslogic.com