9iDS forms 9i gif icons won't display

Question

I have been on metalink and have yet to get a ggod answer on how to make my gif icons appear on my forms in 9iDS Forms 9i. I am on adevelopment machine and have modified my %ORACLE_HOME%\forms90\j2ee\orion-web.xml by addidng the folling lines:
<virtual-directory virtual-path="/webicons"
real-path="d:\webicons" />
Then I modified %ORACLE_HOME%\forms90\java\forms\registry\registry.dat file to read:
default.icons.iconpath=/webicons/
default.icons.iconextension=gif
and I've tried
default.icons.iconpath=/webicons
default.icons.iconextension=gif
and I've tried
default.icons.iconpath=webicons/
default.icons.iconextension=gif
My %ORACLE_HOME%\forms90\server\formsweb.cfg reads:
imageBase=DocumentBase
I was told to remove imageBase=DocumentBase from %ORACLE_HOME%\forms90\server\basejini.htm but I only found:
<PARAM NAME="imageBase" VALUE="%imageBase%">
imageBase="%imageBase%"
in that file. But, even commenting on or the other or both did not yield positive results.
After each modification to the above files I made sure that I closed the browser and stopped and re-started the OC4J Instance before opening the browser.
Once again, I am doing this on a development computer with all files on that computer and I am NOT deploying any of this to 9iAS.
What is wrong?
TIA,
Ed.

Answer 1

Ed,
You're right, there's no reason that you must use the jar file method. For testing, it makes sense to use your images "as is".
I think I see the problem with your config. You should always do this test to to verify that you can see your icons before running your Form: look at your icon in a browser.
You said that you modified %ORACLE_HOME%\forms90\j2ee\orion-web.xml and created the following virtual path:
  <virtual-directory virtual-path="/webicons" real-path="d:\webicons" />Restart your OC4J listener, and see if you can see the icon in your browser:
  http://host:port/[color=red]forms90[color]/webicons/someicon.gif
I bet you can. That's because you edited the orion-web.xml for Forms, which affects everything under the /forms90/ path. That is, host:port/forms90/ is the document root to that orion-web.xml. This is perfectly ok, but in your registry.dat, you need to put in the full thing:
  default.icons.iconpath=/[color=red]forms90[/color]/webiconsIf you want to do it the "normal" way, modify the following:
%ORACLE_HOME%\j2ee\Oracle9iDS\application-deployments\default\defaultWebApp\orion-web.xml
This is the xml file for the base web listener. Now you can see the icon in your browser:
  http://host:port/webicons/someicon.gif
which will let you use the following in your Registry.dat file:
  default.icons.iconpath=/webiconsSee, I told you that you were close!
Regards,
Robin Zimmermann
Forms Product Management