This is quite a milestone for me! At last it possible to actually do some practical work with the BLOB streaming engine (MyBS)!
For this release I have completed changes to the MySQL Connector/J 5.0.7, to allow BLOB data to be transparently stored and retrieved from the MyBS BLOB repository. The new version of the driver is called MySQL Connector/J SE (streaming enabled).
Uploading a BLOB is as simple as using setBinaryStream() or setBlob() on INSERT or UPDATE. By using getBinaryStream() or getBlob() after a SELECT you get direct access to the data stream coming from the repository. More information and some examples are provided in the documentation at: http://www.blobstreaming.org/documentation.
To try this out you need to install the latest versions of PBXT and MyBS. Both are [Read more...]