Bug 4074456 was reported as fixed, but it's not clear that
the evaluation was appropriate. Furthermore, I am still
able to reproduce the problem.

Following the guideline of the Java Tutorial:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/basics/run.html

It seems that the API allows a mechanism for applets to access
images and sounds from a jar file. This mechanism doesn't
seem to appear to work for applications. Specifically,
put class files and gif files into a jar, test.jar
The following application will not find the specified gif file
from the jar. Run using: java -jar test.jar

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

class GifTest extends JFrame
{
    public static void main(String s[])
    {
         GifTest gt = new GifTest();
         gt.show();
    }

    //constructor
    public GifTest()
    {

        Dimension sDim = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        int frameW = sDim.width/2;
        int frameH = sDim.height/2;
        setBounds((sDim.width-frameW)/2,(sDim.height-frameH)/2,frameW,frameH);
        JButton saveButton = new JButton("save");
        saveButton.setIcon(new ImageIcon("images/" + "save.gif"));
        getContentPane().add(saveButton);
    }
}

The workaround shows what is necessary to get this to work.
If this is the intended behavior (you can't bundle your application
and images in a jar), then the documentation should be changed to
reflect this. For starters, the java tutorial.

See attached workspace.

mark.chamness@Eng 1999-07-02