Machine: NT (~48Meg)
JDK: 1.1.6

Problem:
     Trying to load a gif from a jar file (using Toolkit.getImage(URK url)).

     problem happens randomly (within 1 out of 10 launches). Same code runs fine on Solaris. Exception is reported on the ImageFetcher thread.

Exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException:
        at java.io.ByteArrayInputStream.<init>(ByteArrayInputStream.java:82)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.systemresource.SystemResourceManager.getLocalResourceStream(SystemResourceManager.java:114)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.systemresource.SystemResourceConnection.getInputStream(SystemResourceConnection.java:93)
        at sun.net.www.URLConnection.getContentType(URLConnection.java:126)
        at sun.awt.image.URLImageSource.getDecoder(URLImageSource.java:98)
        at sun.awt.image.InputStreamImageSource.doFetch(InputStreamImageSource.java:259)
        at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.fetchloop(ImageFetcher.java:151)
        at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.run(ImageFetcher.java:127)