// Load Image
    BufferedImage bImageFromConvert;
    try {
      URL imageUrl = new URL("http://localhost:8080/Controller/images/logo.gif");

      // Read the image ...
      InputStream imageStream = imageUrl.openStream();

      ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
      byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

      int n = 0;
      while (-1 != (n = imageStream.read(buffer))) {
        baos.write(buffer, 0, n);
      }

      baos.flush();
      byte[] imageInByte = baos.toByteArray();
      baos.close();

      // convert byte array back to BufferedImage
      InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(imageInByte);
      bImageFromConvert = ImageIO.read(in);
    }
    catch (MalformedURLException e) {
      throw new ProcessingException("MalformedURLException occured during the creation of the report.", e);
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
      throw new ProcessingException("IOException occured during the creation of the report.", e);
    }

      HttpServletRequest servletRequest = null;
...
      String reportFileNameSource = servletRequest.getSession().getServletContext().getRealPath("/images/logo.gif");

URL url = Activator.getDefault().getBundle().getResource("/resources/html/scout.gif");

URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
InputStream imageStream = connection.getInputStream();