Online and Offline images in J2ME

[dninsiima]

Am trying to implement an instant messenger and i would love some advice on how i can load different images along contacts in a user's contact list to distinguish when someone is online and offline using presence info sent by the server.

[Pradeepcg]

Am trying to implement an instant messenger and i would love some advice on how i can load different images along contacts in a user's contact list to distinguish when someone is online and offline using presence info sent by the server.

The best way for you to implement the Presence based images is to have the icons as a part of the jar file (res). This is if images are constant like online, offline away etc.
However if you have to load different images for different users like in google chat. then it is best to have a JSP at the server side that returns a Byte array stream of the image according to some unique key like user id or some number/string that is unique to every user.