This servlet is used to retrieve BLOB type from database
import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.sql.Blob; import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; public class DisplayBlobServlet extends HttpServlet { /** * */ private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException { Blob photo = null; Connection conn = null; Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rs = null; String query = "select bill_image from bill_image where account_no in 136771 and bill_ref_no in 9228007"; ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream(); try { conn = getHSQLConnection(); } catch (Exception e) { response.setContentType("text/html"); out.println("Person Photo "); out.println("Database Connection Problem.
"); return; } try { stmt = conn.createStatement(); rs = stmt.executeQuery(query); if (rs.next()) { photo = rs.getBlob(1); } else { response.setContentType("text/html"); out.println("Person Photo "); out.println("No photo found for id= 001
"); return; } response.setContentType("text/plain"); InputStream in = photo.getBinaryStream(); int length = (int) photo.length(); int bufferSize = 1024; byte[] buffer = new byte[bufferSize]; while ((length = in.read(buffer)) != -1) { System.out.println("writing " + length + " bytes"); out.write(buffer, 0, length); } in.close(); out.flush(); } catch (SQLException e) { response.setContentType("text/html"); out.println("Error: Person Photo "); out.println("Error=" + e.getMessage() + "
"); return; } finally { try { rs.close(); stmt.close(); conn.close(); } catch (SQLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } private static Connection getHSQLConnection() throws Exception { Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"); System.out.println("Driver Loaded."); String url = "jdbc:hsqldb:data/tutorial"; return DriverManager.getConnection(url, "sa", ""); } public static Connection getMySqlConnection() throws Exception { String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver"; String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/demo2s"; String username = "oost"; String password = "oost"; Class.forName(driver); Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password); return conn; } public static Connection getOracleConnection() throws Exception { String driver = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"; String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:databaseName"; String username = "username"; String password = "password"; Class.forName(driver); // load Oracle driver Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password); return conn; } }