Blob or File for Images

[Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail <fr...@gmail.com>]

Hi all.

I am building a small shopping app for my girlfriend who sells women
underwear (no, i do not get to run around with hot models, other than the
uml ones).

As the He-Man of this project I opted for Wicket (obviously) with
ActiveObjects and Postgres.

Now to the question or opinion request.

I have to show a nice catalog display, maybe with the gallery style of small
pic large image for enlargement.

Should I put my images in the database and use a blob type or should I build
file system hierarchy?

Should I stay or Should I go? ;-)

f(t)

Re: Blob or File for Images

[John Armstrong <si...@siberian.org>]

Always file systems. Never put images in a database unless it is an
absolute business requirement. You bypass every piece of the system
that is good at managing images (filesystem and webserver).

John-

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail
<fr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I am building a small shopping app for my girlfriend who sells women
> underwear (no, i do not get to run around with hot models, other than the
> uml ones).
>
> As the He-Man of this project I opted for Wicket (obviously) with
> ActiveObjects and Postgres.
>
> Now to the question or opinion request.
>
> I have to show a nice catalog display, maybe with the gallery style of small
> pic large image for enlargement.
>
> Should I put my images in the database and use a blob type or should I build
> file system hierarchy?
>
> Should I stay or Should I go? ;-)
>
> f(t)
>

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Re: Blob or File for Images

[Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail <fr...@gmail.com>]

Sounds Top of the Line!!

Yeah, you are right to laugh.

:-)


f(t)

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Korbinian Bachl - privat <
korbinian.bachl@whiskyworld.de> wrote:

>
>
> Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail schrieb:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I am building a small shopping app for my girlfriend who sells women
>> underwear (no, i do not get to run around with hot models, other than the
>> uml ones).
>>
>
> HA HA HA! :P
>
> *sorry could not resist*
>
>
>> As the He-Man of this project I opted for Wicket (obviously) with
>> ActiveObjects and Postgres.
>>
>> Now to the question or opinion request.
>>
>> I have to show a nice catalog display, maybe with the gallery style of
>> small
>> pic large image for enlargement.
>>
>> Should I put my images in the database and use a blob type or should I
>> build
>> file system hierarchy?
>>
>
> I would do neither! - you should have a look at JCR, especially Apache
> Jackrabbit as its reference impl. - that'll solve your problems while still
> keeping you flexible in future. You also might want to have a look at
> Brix-CMS as a good starting point and has good reasons to use it:
> -> it gives you most needed CMS functions for your shop
> -> it uses JCR to save its content
> -> it can be extended using Tiles that are somewhat wicket-panels that
> implement a special interface
> -> its made by 2 wicket core devs that build it as a basement for their
> selling-shopsoftware
> -> big part of its code is written by Igor :)
>
> Best,
>
> Korbinian
>
>
>> Should I stay or Should I go? ;-)
>>
>>
> thats obviously a thing your gilfriend has to answer... ;D
>
>
>  f(t)
>>
>>
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Re: Blob or File for Images

[Korbinian Bachl - privat <ko...@whiskyworld.de>]

Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail schrieb:
> Hi all.
> 
> I am building a small shopping app for my girlfriend who sells women
> underwear (no, i do not get to run around with hot models, other than the
> uml ones).

HA HA HA! :P

*sorry could not resist*

> 
> As the He-Man of this project I opted for Wicket (obviously) with
> ActiveObjects and Postgres.
> 
> Now to the question or opinion request.
> 
> I have to show a nice catalog display, maybe with the gallery style of small
> pic large image for enlargement.
> 
> Should I put my images in the database and use a blob type or should I build
> file system hierarchy?

I would do neither! - you should have a look at JCR, especially Apache 
Jackrabbit as its reference impl. - that'll solve your problems while 
still keeping you flexible in future. You also might want to have a look 
at Brix-CMS as a good starting point and has good reasons to use it:
-> it gives you most needed CMS functions for your shop
-> it uses JCR to save its content
-> it can be extended using Tiles that are somewhat wicket-panels that 
implement a special interface
-> its made by 2 wicket core devs that build it as a basement for their 
selling-shopsoftware
-> big part of its code is written by Igor :)

Best,

Korbinian

> 
> Should I stay or Should I go? ;-)
> 

thats obviously a thing your gilfriend has to answer... ;D

> f(t)
> 

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