Display image stored as blob using GWT RPC

Question

I'd like to display images I've stored as Blobs in a GWT rendered page using RPC. I don't want to use a servlet because then loading the images is synchronous, and if I have many images can slow down the page load times. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Using a Servlet is the best way to serve images. Browsers do not block on image downloads. On the contrary, they start downloading images and other resources in parallel threads (it was earlier restricted to 2 threads, but newer browsers have relaxed that limit).