Streams and EJB

[Hari babu]

Hi all,
I have some pdf data stored in my database which will be of bytes. I want to read that database data and send it to the servlet to display the pdf. Is it feasible enough to use the streams in EJB. I read that we should not be using the File streams in my EJB layer
For e.g in my implementation bean can i have this :
public DataInput getPdf(){
// knows how to query for the pdf and send it to the calling servlet
}
Hari

[Manish Kamat]

if your client and ejb are situated on different machines(multitier environment) streams can't be sent over the network as they are not serialized.in this case you need to convert streams into serialized objects e.g. String etc.which can be easily sent over the network.when you receive this string in your ejb again you need to convert this into bytes and then store it in the database.
while fetching this field do exactly reverse of above procedure.
i've successfully done exactly same...hope this information will help you.