Animation with Animated GIF

Hi,
I need to do an animation, I am using an Image object to load an animated GIF. Is there any way to run all the frames which this GIF contains using the Image Object?. I don�t want to extract each image from the gif and then copy them into a jpg format, and then have to make a loop to animate the set of JPG images... it is possible, only load the GIF, and with some java class, animate the gif??
Thanks.

Have you tried just displaying an animated gif image, say JLabel+ImageIcon. It works:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=20&thread=553508

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