Steve,
You might consider creating a servlet that to get and update you're files. The
servlet can get the pathnames and any other data it needs from EJB. I'm sure it
been mentioned before on this list, so you might check the archives for details.
--Victor
Steve Gardell wrote:
> We have an application that deals with a large
> quantity of multi-media data associated with a
> relational database. The multi-media files are stored
> directly on the file system. Conceptually they are
> columns in a database schema; however the reality
> is that relational databases are not really "up the task"
> of managing this data, so the relational database
> contains pathnames.
>
> We would like to manage these associated files via
> EJB. Basically this means creating, deleting, and
> returning pathnames. The EJB server would (at
> least typically) never be concerned with the contents
> of the files.
>
> We understand that the spec prohibits this but are
> at a loss to understand why. They are really just an
> element of our persistent store... We are hesitant to
> just cheat since we understand that access to file
> system might be "yanked" at any time.
>
> Along a similar vein, we can imagine storing persistent
> data in a variety of other places such as a Radius
> server, an IMAP server, an LDAP directory, etc. I
> imagine that there is something buried in the spec
> about using EJB's in such an integration role, but I
> can't find it.
>
> Any elucidating comments would be most welcome.
>
> Steven Gardell
> Principal Engineer, Iperia Inc.
> 781-993-3544
>
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