Icons not displaying in oracle forms.

Hi All,
I am trying to display icons on Oracle forms 10g.I just brought over these forms from another system and I am trying to display the icons like next record, clear form etc..
I have done the following steps so far. The icons are still not displaying. Appreciate any help.
Created a folder in D:\oracle\oracleas\forms\java called icons.
Copied all gif files and jpeg files into icons. Then created a jar file.
D:\oracle\oracleas\forms\java>jar -cvf my_icons.jar icons
It created the jar file in the same directory D:\oracle\oracleas\forms\java
Also changes were made to these files as shown below each file.
forms.conf
AliasMatch ^/forms/icons/(..*) "D:\oracle\oracleas\forms\java\icons/$1"
registry.dat
default.icons.iconpath=http://servername:7778/forms/java/
formweb.cfg
# Forms applet parameter
codebase=/forms/java
# Forms applet parameter
imageBase=codebase
# Forms applet archive setting for JInitiator
archive_jini=frmall_jinit.jar,frmmain.jar, frmjdapi.jar, my_icons.jar
# Forms applet archive setting for other clients (Sun Java Plugin, Appletviewer, etc)
archive=frmall.jar,frmmain.jar, frmjdapi.jar, my_icons.jar
Also added this line under orion-web-app in orion-web.xml file.
<virtual-directory virtual-path="/icons" real-path="D:\oracle\oracleas\forms\java\icons" />
Restarted the OC4J forms server after any change.

To test your configuration, you can try building an URL:
i.e.
http://localhost:8889/forms/frmservlet/icons/iconname.gif
Does it show the icon ?
If that does not work, I would try re-generating the my_icons.jar file, but instead of going directly to the forms/java/icons folder, copy the icons folder to the root directory i.e. c:\icons and execute the command to jar the icons folder, then redeploy the my_icons.jar file.
Then try again with the URL... if the URL does not work, you still have configuration issues.
PS: Don't forget to clear the cache in your browser so that the new .jar files is loaded?
Furthermore:
========
Remove the changes made to the forms.conf and orion-web.xml, they are only needed if the icons are
not stored in a .jar file.
forms.conf
AliasMatch ^/forms/icons/(..*) "D:\oracle\oracleas\forms\java\icons/$1"
orion-web.xml
<virtual-directory virtual-path="/icons" real-path="D:\oracle\oracleas\forms\java\icons" />
Edited by: Rodolfo Ferrari on Jun 17, 2009 6:14 PM
To double check your configuration, follow steps in metalink note 232413.1 - How to Deploy Iconic Images via a JAR File in Forms 9i/10g?.
Edited by: Rodolfo Ferrari on Jun 17, 2009 7:19 PM
Edited by: Rodolfo Ferrari on Jun 17, 2009 7:24 PM

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