Retrieve document into a blob

Hi Friends,
Can anyone please give me a method e.g my_get_blob(filename) to retrieve a document filename into a blob, i need to upload into the content repository document table of oracle application server portal 10g release (10.1.3)

Portal doesn't support the blob or clog data type. We had to use HTMLDB (application express) to resolve that issue. HTMLDB is really a great product and has allowed us to do so much more in the way of data upload and retrieval for our company end-users.

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    JScrollPane scrollpanel = new JScrollPane(txtArea);
    scrollpanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(250,380));
    content.add(scrollpanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    f.setVisible(true);
}// end of method ExplanatoryText
}// end of class ExplanatoryTextBut since it is an applet, it has run into the typical "Access Denied" problem when trying to read the input file from the locally mounted volumn.
Hence my question about whether using getDocumentBase and PlainDocument would be easier.
Thanks again for your input.

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