I have a requirement .....we have to develop a webservice ....
1)Client will send SOAP/HTTP request for imge(s).
2)We have to serve the corresponding image through SOAP/HTTP.
Now the design issues...
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I have two types of solutions...
Type-1
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1)Storing images in Database as a BLOB.
2)Extract the image(s ) and send it over SOAP/HTTP
Type-2
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1) Store the images on the hard disk with a predefined path and format, and store the reference (access path) in the Oracle database.
2)Get the relative path and get image and send it over SOAP/HTTP.
could u please tell me which one is better interms of performance and scalability.We are using J2EE/J2SE/AXIS and Tomcat.
what advantages do we expect to get by serving the images using SOAP over HTTP instead of serving the images using just HTTP?
Thanks
Shanta.B
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