> In the following code I get a different response depending on whether
> the class file and images are left on the disk or placed in a jar file.
> In the latter case the is.available() always returns 1, regardless of
> the number of bytes really available:
> 
> Image loadImageAsResource(String resourceName)
> {
>     Image image = null;
> 
>     try
>     {
> 	InputStream is = 
> 	    this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(resourceName);
> 	byte[] bytes = new byte[is.available()];
> 
> 	// !!!!!!!              ^^^^^^^ returns 1 if in class and img
>         // are in jar. Otherwise, returns a correct number
> 
> 	is.read(bytes);
> 	image = this.getToolkit().createImage(bytes);
> 	is.close();
>     }
>     catch (Exception resourceError)
>     {
> 	// react to it
>     }
> 
>     return (image);
> }
> 
> The loading class is not part of a package, but I found out that it does
> not really matter. The input stream returned is a ZipFile, from
> java.util.zip package.
>