Persisting large files with Hibernate Annotations

Question

I am using Hibernate Annotations for the first time in my web application. In my bean, what type what annotations should I use to persist files uploaded by users?

Answer 1

I assume that you're using the JPA annotations. If so, you'll want to use the @Lob annotation for large data sets. See this page for an example.

This page lists a little more information specific to Hibernate JPA. Of interest:

@Lob indicates that the property should be persisted in a Blob or a Clob depending on the property type: java.sql.Clob, Character[], char[] and java.lang.String will be persisted in a Clob. java.sql.Blob, Byte[], byte[] and serializable type will be persisted in a Blob.