I have packaged a Java application into a jar file, along with some gif
and jpg files that appear in the application, but the gif and jpg files
do not appear in the application gui when I run it from the jar file.

Starting out, the class, gif, and jpg files are in the same directory,
and the class files are not in a package (no package statement in the
java source).

An example of the code I use to get the images into the application are
as follows:

  private ImageIcon image1 = new ImageIcon("image1.jpg");

-OR-

  private ImageIcon image1 = new ImageIcon("./image1.jpg");

When running the application from the command prompt, either technique
works fine - the image appears in the application:

java MyClass

I jar up the class, gif, and jpg files.  I check the jar file to make
sure things are there:

jar -tvf MyJar.jar

...and the class, gif, and jpg files are all there, in the same
directory in the jar file.  The case of the file names is the same in
the original development directory, in the application source, and in
the jar file.

However, when I run the application from the jar, the gif and jpg files
do not appear in the gui:

java -jar MyJar.jar

Any ideas??

I'm using Java 1.5.0 on a Windows 2000 system.

Regards,

Mark