Images in the Constructor

Question

I have an Applet that I'm working on that is a card game. The card game creates a Deck object (a Stack of Card classes, basically). What I want is to have the cards load their own images when they are created, but I can't figure out how to get the images since the Card class is not an Applet itself.
Also, as a side note - when I try to load images in the Applet itself I get a Secutiy Exception - I think it's because I have the images stored locally and the program won't let me access them since it sees me as the client rather than the server of the images. Not sure. If anyone knows anything about either of these I really need some help.
Thanks a ton.

Answer 1

Try to package the class files and the images into a .jar file and run the applet from that jar.
I use the following code to load an image from a .jar. It has not failed in applets running in IE, Netscape and HotJava (Windows or Linux platforms) using their default java VMs.
try
     // We use getResourceAsStream since Netscape not
     // implements Class.getResource.
     java.io.InputStream in = clazz.getResourceAsStream(url);
     byte buffer[] = new byte[in.available()];
     in.read(buffer);
     result = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(buffer);
catch (java.io.IOException ex)
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