Managing blob images using ADF and JSF or struts

Question

Hello everyone. I am an ADF newbe and I am developing a web app. that has to manage (display, insert,update and delete) blob images from/to an oracle DB. I've seen the "howto" on image managing using intermedia and struts, but, for this new app I wanted to use JSF (something that is not mandatory) and, what is important is that the DB has already stored the images in blob format.
Can anybody point me in the right direction please??? Is there any howtos on this subject???
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

jfin wrote:
but so far I have to say that I like the fact that I'll have to do very little
System.out.println(<..../>....<>....</>).Assuming that you rather mean out.println() where out is the ServletOutputStream reference returned by HttpServletResponse#getOutputStream(), I can only agree with you. That's certainly not the way how JSP/Servlet code is to be written. The maintainability, extendability, reusability and testability would be far below the freezing point then. You need to write presentation logic in JSP files, not in Servlets and absolutely not in scriptlets inside a JSP.
When you need to write presentation logic which may change per request, use JSTL and EL for that. Again, not scriptlets. For business and controlling logic, use Servlets. For transfer of data, use javabeans (DTO's, VO's). For data access logic, use DAO classes which are to be interacted by servlets.
JSF removes the need for creating Servlets and using JSTL/EL in JSP files. You just have JSP pages with JSF tags for presentation and javabeans for the request values and backing beans for business logic.
When would one use JSF over the other two? When Struts2? When Shale?And you ask that in a JSF forum? At least my opinion is predictable :)