display a picture stored in a DB with HTML

[bequibeck]

I have to store picture in a DB and then I must display them in a web page with HTML,but to display a picture in HTML we have to give the path of the picture and not directely the picture.Is there an other solution?Help me please...
And Can I use ImageIcon in a JSP page?
[ February 07, 2002: Message edited by: bequibeck ]

[William Brogden]

For pictures from a database your link should go to a servlet which uses the request information to get the image as a byte array and serve it. You must set the content type and it works best if you set the content length.
Bill

[Laurent Sate]

You must set the content type and it works best if you set the content length.

Could you explain me more in detail your solution? Maybe a little example?
Thanks

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

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[Adam Hardy]

Wow, Bill, that is an absolutely excellent solution. I never would have thought of just serving a gif as a byte array.
Is it a major performance issue though? I mean, how much slower would it be than just having images in a directory? Would the app server cache the response?
Thanks
Adam