Could you expand upon this a bit. How would you recommend handling a field
that's potentially larger than available memory, such as an image or very
large text file?
Kirk Yarina
At 03:38 PM 2/1/01 -0800, you wrote:
> > From: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development
>
> > You mention that "There is some limitation using BLOB on some
> > application servers (such as
> > with WLS)" I am using WLS. Would you please say a little bit more what
> > the limitation is? or
> > recommend me some references to me about this?
>
>It is usually not recommended to store Java BLOB's for several reaons:
>
>- poor performances (serialization is expensive)
>- versioning issues
>- no queries possible
>- and others...
>
>The time you will spend making your object a "real" Entity bean will be
>more than
>paid off by the functionalities and performances that both the container
>and the
>database will bring you.
>
>Even more so if you're using an EJB 2.0 container.
>
>--
>Cedric
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