Superimposing images

We are working on a game project in java.The game is developed as an applet, to be deployed in an html page.

The problem we have is that we need to embed 14 small images inside a big image and all these images have to reside inside the applet.

Using normal java2 image techniques, we found it difficult to implement this.The big image covers all the smaller images.We need to add these images as two layers.

We installed java3d api but still are not able to get over this problem.

All images are GIFs.

Please enmumerate solutions using awt and swing.

[594 byte] By [rajeshkrishnan] at [2007-9-26 7:35:32]