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Read an Image from a Database Using the getBinaryStream Method

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This following code shows you how to extract an image (in this example, named foto_9738533.gif) from a database using the getBinaryStream method:

try{   sql="SELECT Foto FROM Table1 WHERE Nr_cont=9738533";   rs=st.executeQuery(sql);   if(rs.next())      {      is=rs.getBinaryStream("Foto");      try{         java.io.FileOutputStream out= new java.io.FileOutputStream             ("C:\sgbd\foto_9738533.gif");          byte[] bf = new byte[6144];          int foto_bytes=0;           while ((foto_bytes = is.read(bf))!=-1)                  {                  out.write(bf, 0, foto_bytes);                 }          out.close();         }catch(java.io.IOException e)            {System.out.println(e.getMessage());}         }         }catch(SQLException e)            {System.out.println(e.getMessage());}...

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