Henry Mbadiwe

There's a way that you can access EJBs with Visual Basic:
Visual basic for the JVM
You might want to wrap the database calls with a session bean and use the above method to access the data.
I haven't tried this but it looks interesting :-)

Or a better idea would be to use a Web service layer to connect the two.

Why don't you just place the image in the jar file?

First, could you disable smilies in your post?
Second, do you have anything else underlying this web page you're trying to display (applicationContext.xml for example, *-servlet.xml, *-service.xml, Controller classes)?
Maybe if you post those things we'll be able to help.

The problem is that you defined your transactional annotation in the interface instead of the implementation.
These annotations aren't inherited by your implementing class.
@Transactional(readOnly = false)
The above should be defined in your implementation.