Question

I am working on a web application, using JSP and Servlets, I was retreiving pictures as a string which contains the path of that picture.

while(rset.next())
{ %>
     <img src='<%rset.getString(1)%>' />
<%  }

And the table in the database would be like this.

id ---- image_path

1.....images/aaa.png

2.....images/bbb.png

So what I’m doing here is actually getting the path of the image, not the image itself, the images are inside a folder called images.

But later on, I found another way which actually stores images in a database.

PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO pictures VALUES(?,?)");
  File file = new File("C:/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/CodingDiaryExample/images/5.jpg");
  FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream(file);
  ps.setInt(1,8);
  ps.setBinaryStream(2,fs,fs.available());
  int i = ps.executeUpdate();

Which is the best approach?

Answer 1

1. Getting images from Web Application is Good compared with fetching from Database.

2. OR if you have more number of images,then store in a FTP and fetch based on pah.