Re: Hibernate + MySQl - blob mapping question
 

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 03:11:45 GMT, "Igor" <gosha@rogers.com> wrote or
quoted :

>What Hibernate type would you recommend for the mapping - binary,
>serializable or blob?

Serialisable would not be suitable for gifs or jpgs because the
internal representation of an Image is different on different
platforms. You want to save images as a standard format of bits. I
don't know what the difference is between binary and blob.

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