Interpretting HASH_MAP to PLSQL

Question

Hello All,
My oracle version in 10.2.0.4 on a solaris V880 machine.
Our Application Java SDK is 1.4.
I am trying to pass in a series of XML (considerably huge for XML type column) from java application plsql which stores them into an oracle table with column as external BLOB. Since the contents are so heavy for each objects , using XMLTYPE column is not feasible.
The xml files comes as either java hash_map or string which i have to pass as parameter to an Oracle stored procedure which stores as external BLOB in OS through a table.
My first doubt is this the correct approach.
My second doubt here is how to interpret java hash_map object within PLSQL when it is passed to it.
Apologies if the question is silly since i am a new comer to java.
Thanks in advance ,
Vijay G

Answer 1

Is it possible to just get the file name "reaper"from it instead of reaper.txtActually, I ran a test, and
     System.out.println(  "file name portion == " + ( f.getName().split( "\\." ) )[ 0 ] );works also:
This has the same effect as:
     String fileName = f.getName();
     String splitFileName[] = fileName.split( "\\." );
     System.out.println(  "file name portion == " + splitFileName[ 0 ] );Now that I think about it, the second form is more easily understood. There is really no reason to do it the first way. Just interesting to note that you can.