If you want to store an actual Word file, you should do it as a BLOB (Binary Large OBject or Binary Logical OBject depending on your school of thought). I don't have any code examples but Java does have some tools for storing and retreiving BLOB's from an Oracle database.
- how to store a document file? Nancy Crisostomo Martinez
- RE: how to store a document file? kalbee
- Re: how to store a document file? rsequeira
- Jason Johnston