Why does my icon handling code throw a NullPointerException?

This means, that getClass(). GetResource("/Images/yahoo_1. Gif") returns null .

It looks like getClass(). GetResource("/Images/yahoo_1. Gif") returns null i.e.

The . Gif cannot be found on your classpath. (Images versus images maybe?).

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