Help please with a Static Initializer for ImageIcons inside Jar Files

Question

At the moment I'm playing around displaying XML using A JTree
I am subclassing DefaultMutableTreeNode, and want it to have some default Icons set up....
Sort of like this:
public class XNode extends DefaultMutableTreeNode
    public static final ImageIcon icon;
   public static ImageIcon getIcon()
        return XNode.icon;
}The only thing is that for the life of me after trying various things and searching these forums and google:
I can't work out how to write the static Initializer for the ImageIcon.
The ImageIcon will need to be created using a URL, cos it will be inside my jar file.....
the usual...
           URL url = this.getClass().getResource("/images/Exit16.gif");
           ImageIcon Icon = new ImageIcon( url );but I wanted these Icons to be class members..............
Could someone help?
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Answer 1

DrClap " I don't understand why you put Class.forName in there either"
A: Because I don't really know what I'm doing.
I will try that suggestion.
At present I have this:
     static ImageIcon loadIcon;
     static
          try
            loadIcon = new ImageIcon( Class.forName("cis.editor.xml.nodes.AlNode").getResource("/images/Exit16.gif"));
          catch( ClassNotFoundException cnfe )
               System.out.println("ClassNotFound: " + cnfe.getMessage() );
     public static final ImageIcon defaultIcon = loadIcon;
     static
          try
            loadIcon = new ImageIcon( Class.forName("cis.editor.xml.nodes.AlNode").getResource("/images/tree_folder_major.gif"));
          catch( ClassNotFoundException cnfe )
               System.out.println("ClassNotFound: " + cnfe.getMessage() );
     public static final ImageIcon commentIcon = loadIcon;
//.......... ANd so OnWhy? Because do far it was the only way I could get it to compile.
And It works..
However it's a real abortion.. codewise.
I need to load about 16 Icons that the various subclasses can 'use'
DefaultTreeCellRenderer - must do somethng similar because it has a bunch of Icons to "Pick from",
Only How is that done 'properly' ?