RMI Trouble with ImageIcon

Question

Hi,
I would like to send an objekt by RMI to a client.
The object extends a DefaultTreeCellRenderer which needs
several ImageIcons to show a tree correctly.
The class for this looks like this
public class AppTreeRenderer extends DefaultTreeCellRenderer
     private static ImageIcon whi_Ico;
     private static ImageIcon gre_Ico;
        public AppTreeRenderer()
          whi_Ico = new ImageIcon("wth.gif");
          gre_Ico = new ImageIcon("grn.gif");
}Right now i can receive the object. (At least i can see some "System.out.println" on the client i added to the class)
But i can't see the ImageIcons. I know that there are problems
with Images over RMI. But I thought that ImageIcon should do as they
are Serializable.
Thanks
Oliver

Answer 1

Yes it is,
i will give you a short description of what my application does.
Server looks periodically into a directory and stores filelist
as DefaultMutableTreeNode.
Client gets DefaultMutableTreeNode when a button is pressed a and shows it correctly as JTree.
Everything works fine so far
But now I would like to set my own TreeCellRenderer with other icons.
So i thought about transmitting a DefaultTreeCellRenderer with my own ImageIcons.
But it doesn't show the icons.
Oliver