java - How to load and use images in applets? -

i've been going @ 2 days , can't find way how load images properly. applet going run locally on different computer, , it's not in jar file (for 1 previous applet, same project, i've used .class files , used them in directly in html source code). questions is: how load , use images have relative path (possibly next .class files) ? here's part of code

try {     image = null;     inputstream = new bufferedinputstream( new fileinputstream( system.getproperty("user.dir")+"\\toshiba.jpeg" ));      image = imageio.read(is);      image = image.getscaledinstance(400,200,image.scale_smooth);  }  catch (ioexception e) {}  icon ic = new imageicon(image); 

@roxasshadow try use getdocumentbase().
@nick992 tried , returns null, think i've read somewhere can use applets accessed on remote websites , not locally.

there no accounting people think.

import java.awt.gridlayout; import javax.swing.*;  // <applet code=whereamiapplet width=500 height=50></applet> public class whereamiapplet extends japplet {      @override     public void init() {         setlayout(new gridlayout(0,1,5,5));         add(new jlabel("document base: " + getdocumentbase()));         add(new jlabel("code base: " + getcodebase()));     } }