How to identify mouse cursor image?

I am doing some testing in java- everything else so far is working, but I can't find out how to.. find which image the mouse pointer is. I need to be able to tell when a mouse cursor goes over a link and displays the right cursor. It switches between the default arrow, the little hand for links, and a custom cursor, but I don't know how to retrieve that information.
Any ideas?
At first I was going to just use screenshots- but cannot capture mouse cursor/icon that way, and this way would work better.
Thanks!

That would make sense, but I haven't found any functions on "get the cursor for the component", or of anything related to getting the cursor.
I was going to use the robot to move to two specified points on the screen, but then I still have the issue of somehow retrieving any information about the cursor(aside from position/clicks). Would you know offhand which package/function(method) would have it? That one only showed stuff related to movement/events, no cursor information besides position/clicks.
Thanks!
Edited by: doomtoo on Sep 3, 2008 11:59 PM

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