How do I change the default application icon in Java?

Question

I\'m using NetBeans, trying to change the familiar Java coffee cup icon to a png file that I have saved in a resources directory in the jar file. I\'ve found many different

Answer 1

You can simply go Netbeans, in the design view, go to JFrame property, choose icon image property, Choose Set Form's iconImage property using: "Custom code" and then in the Form.SetIconImage() function put the following code:

Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(name_of_your_JFrame.class.getResource("image.png"))

Do not forget to import:

import java.awt.Toolkit;

in the source code!