BLOB, MySQL and Creator table

I am trying to get a table to display a set of blob images from a MYSQL database. When I dataProvider is dropped onto the table, the default Component type is Static text and for some reason does not recognise that thse field are of type blob/jpg.
If i try to mannually change the Component type to image I get the following error
Cannot display the table1 compent in the Visual Design Editor
java.lang.ClassCastException: [B
     at com.sun.web.ui.component.ImageComponentBase.getUrl(ImageComponentBase.java:496)
     at com.sun.web.ui.renderer.ImageRenderer.renderAttributes(ImageRenderer.java:92)
     at com.sun.web.ui.renderer.AbstractRenderer.encodeBegin(AbstractRenderer.java:148)
     at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeBegin(UIComponentBase.java:683)
     at com.sun.web.ui.util.RenderingUtilities.renderComponent(RenderingUtilities.java:77)
     at com.sun.web.ui.renderer.TableColumnRenderer.encodeChildren(TableColumnRenderer.java:154)
     at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:701)
     at com.sun.web.ui.util.RenderingUtilities.renderComponent(RenderingUtilities.java:79)
     at com.sun.web.ui.renderer.TableRowGroupRenderer.encodeChildren(TableRowGroupRenderer.java:164)
     at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:701)
     at com.sun.web.ui.util.RenderingUtilities.renderComponent(RenderingUtilities.java:79)
     at com.sun.web.ui.renderer.TableRenderer.encodeChildren(TableRenderer.java:142)
     at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:701)
Have I come accros a bug here or am I doing something wrong?
In the properties of the colum in the Server palette the SQL type is shown as LONGVARBINARY. I have used the Blog images in another Application successfully so I know there is no issue with the data itself. I someone could shed some light on the situation I would be delighted
Kind regards
BOC

Hi,
Please take a look at the below thread
http://swforum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?forumID=123&threadID=46410
Hope this helps
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