Silly Question about bluetooth icon

Hello,
My bluetooth icon in the menu bar keeps flashing. I haven't changed my settings and I do not have file sharing on etc. I think I pretty much have a stand alone machine with no outside access granted. Any clue or do I need to get one :>}
Thanks
Char

Okay I am replying to myself, I needed to get a clue, mighty mouse was trying to tell me he was running out of juice. DUH!!!!!!!!!

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i haven't worked with devices but only with the toolkit emulators;
it definitely is possible...
u have to send the image as a bytestream and receive the image at the jsp end...
and then reconstruct the image.
the Stream classes in J2ME AND J2SE are all u will require.
also the Image class.
i have not done this but i have successfully sent an image frm a jsp and displayed it on the emulator.

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