Web Start fails to find system resource - java

I have an app that runs fine when I am not attempting to use it as a web start app, but when I convert it to one in Netbeans, it goes belly up. The console is showing a null pointer exception when trying to get a resource that is located in a dependent library. The line of code itself grabs a .png file in that library file and uses it for the window icon. The lines of code that kill it is:
java.net.URL url = ClassLoader.getSystemResource("/com/my/icon/someimage.png");
Toolkit kit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
Image img = kit.createImage(url); // fails with null pointer exception
If I am not trying to do this as a web start app then I have zero issues. It runs perfectly. Web start = failboat. The code is signed, if that makes any difference. The library file that is being used is one large jar that contains 3 library files I created plus 4 others that are needed which I did not code myself. Do I need to sign the library file as well? Is this possibly an issue in and of itself?
EDIT:
If I take out those lines of code, the web app runs without any issues.
Here is the error:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-2" java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.net.util.URLUtil.getConnectPermission(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.SunToolkit.checkPermissions(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.SunToolkit.createImage(Unknown Source)
at DDSC.initComponents(DDSC.java:265)
at DDSC.<init>(DDSC.java:103)

Try using getClassLoader().getResource() with just the filename.
Full path isn't required and getClassLoader() handles the magic via WebStart & also locally:
String filename = "someimage.png";
Image resultImg = null;
URL url = getClassLoader().getResource(filename);
if (url != null)
resultImg = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(url);

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I am using im4java for integration with Image Magick.
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Answering my own question so that It might be helpful for fellow developers who might face this problem.
Azure App Service normally has Windows Server VMs. You can check the OS of your server in web container logs.
Image Magick for windows does not allow conversion of remote http
image urls while for Unix System, it allows so. My Local machine is
MAC So it was working correctly on my local system.
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Either you use a linux VM on Azure
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I have tried both and are both working.

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at sun.awt.image.URLImageSource.getDecoder(URLImageSource.java:125)
at sun.awt.image.InputStreamImageSource.doFetch(InputStreamImageSource.java:263)
at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.fetchloop(ImageFetcher.java:205)
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I became so much upset with this simple code segment:
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i am getting a problem
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OuptutStream output = new FileOutputStream(dllFile);
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WebBrowser webBrowser=new WebBrowser();
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at org.jdesktop.jdic.init.JdicManager.initBrowserNative(Unknown Source)
at org.jdesktop.jdic.browser.WebBrowser.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
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