DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`pic`;
CREATE TABLE `test`.`pic` (
 `idpic` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
 `caption` varchar(45) NOT NULL default '',
 `img` longblob NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (`idpic`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
 
public class LoadDriver {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      // The newInstance() call is a work around for some
      // broken Java implementations
      Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
      
      // Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(……)
      // ……
    } catch (Exception ex) {
      // handle the error
    }
}

PreparedStatement ps;
…
ps = con.prepareStatement("insert into PIC values (?,?,?)");　// (1)
ps.setInt(1, id); //(2)
ps.setString(2, file.getName()); (3)
ps.setBinaryStream(3, fis, (int)file.length()); (4)
ps.executeUpdate();
…

package com.forrest.storepic;
 import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
 
/**
 * This class describes how to store picture file into MySQL.
 * @author Yanjiang Qian
 * @version 1.0 Jan-02-2006
 */
public class StorePictures {
  
  private String dbDriver;
  private String dbURL;
  private String dbUser;
  private String dbPassword;
  private Connection con;
  private PreparedStatement ps; 
 
  public StorePictures() {
    dbDriver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
    dbURL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test";
    dbUser = "root";
    dbPassword = "admin";
    initDB();
  }
  
  public StorePictures(String strDriver, String strURL,
      String strUser, String strPwd) {
    dbDriver = strDriver;
    dbURL = strURL;
    dbUser = strUser;
    dbPassword = strPwd;
    initDB();
  }
 
  public void initDB() {
    try {
      // Load Driver
      Class.forName(dbDriver).newInstance();
      // Get connection
      con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL,
          dbUser, dbPassword);      
    } catch(ClassNotFoundException e) {
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    } catch(SQLException ex) {
      // handle any errors
      System.out.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
      System.out.println("SQLState: " + ex.getSQLState());
      System.out.println("VendorError: " + ex.getErrorCode());
 
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
  }
 
  public boolean storeImg(String strFile) throws Exception {
    boolean written = false;
    if (con == null)
      written = false;
    else {
      int id = 0;
      File file = new File(strFile);
      FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
      
      try {       
        ps = con.prepareStatement("SELECT MAX(idpic) FROM PIC");
        ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();
        
        if(rs != null) {
          while(rs.next()) {
            id = rs.getInt(1)+1;
          }
        } else {    
          return written;
        }
        
        ps = con.prepareStatement("insert "
            + "into PIC values (?,?,?)");
        ps.setInt(1, id);
        ps.setString(2, file.getName());
        ps.setBinaryStream(3, fis, (int) file.length());
        ps.executeUpdate();
        
        written = true;
      } catch (SQLException e) {
        written = false;
        System.out.println("SQLException: "
            + e.getMessage());
        System.out.println("SQLState: "
            + e.getSQLState());
        System.out.println("VendorError: "
            + e.getErrorCode());
        e.printStackTrace();
      } finally {       
        ps.close();
        fis.close();
        // close db con
        con.close();
      }
    }
    return written;
  }
  
  /**
   * Start point of the program
   * @param args CMD line
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    if(args.length != 1) {
      System.err.println("java StorePictures filename");
      System.exit(1);
    }
    boolean flag = false;
    StorePictures sp = new StorePictures();
    try {
      flag = sp.storeImg(args[0]);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    if(flag) {
      System.out.println("Picture uploading is successful.");
    } else {
      System.out.println("Picture uploading is failed.");
    }
  }
}