How to handle BLOB and CLOB?

[samit majumdar]

My application collects data from oracle and stores it in xml files and again it can read the contents of xml files and store it back to the oracle. My programme is running fine. But now I want to handle BLOB and CLOB datatypes for storing the data from oracle to xml and again from xml to oracle. But I am in complete dark on handling CLOB and BLOB. Can anyone guide me in this matter? Or, how to proceed, at least.
Thanks -
Samit

[Jim Yingst]

This question has nothing to do with SCJP, and everything to do with JDBC - so I'm moving it to the JDBC forum.