Deploying icons as jar file in Forms 9i

We (Cancer Research UK) don't quite understand what is happening -
We followed the guidelines in the white paper "Oracle 9IAs Forms Services - How to Deploy Icons"
to deploy the images in a jar file:
Altered the formsweb.cfg file to contain
archive_jini=f90_jinit.jar, our_images.jar
imagebase=codebase
Seemed to work, jar file downloaded to browser (IE 6 ) ok , web deployed form shows toolbar icons, great..
However, when we removed an existing entry in orion-web.xml which maps our application/icon directory
or remove the *.gif files from this directory, our web deployed form no longer shows the icon images.
Does it still need these to be present on the server, if we direct it to use cached images ?
We are test running just the Application server components installed with the IDs 9.0.2 on a Windows 2000 server.

Hi Steve,
I have the exact same problem. The jar is downloaded and everything is 100% best practises, but there is no way I can make the damn system use the files in the JAR file. No matter if imagebase=codebase: it will only use files on the server, and if I remove the gif files they don't show up.
I think there must be a glitch in the system somewhere. I don't completely understand this part of it: the codebase is mapped to /forms90/java - but how does that add up when you put your files in c:\my_gifs (as detailed in Best Practices section of the Deploying Icons paper). How does the server know where to look when codebase are two different places - I'm thinking it can't for some reason.
My Apache/Apache/logs/error_log clearly states that files (real files) are not found in c:\my_gifs if I remove them from the file system. The JAR is downloaded, but the server doesn't use it.
However, most people have all their gif files in the same folder as their images.jar file, so they don't ever discover that the server ignores the jar and uses the files instead.
Regards,
Jesper Vad Kristensen
Aarhus, Denmark

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