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Instructions and Procedures

Comic book archive file format
How to store/retrieve images (i.e., comic pages):
1. Store the images in a DB table using the BLOB datatype (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/blob.html).
2. Create a servlet whose sole job is to take requests for images and respond with image data (not HTML). Here are a couple examples: one and another.
3. In a normal servlet/JSP, use img tag sources refer to the URL of the retrieve-image servlet (with additional parameters specifying the particular image).