private void runGetBLOB() 
{
     try
     {   // Prepare a Statement:
         PreparedStatement stmnt = conn.prepareStatement("select

         aBlob  from BlobTable");

         // Execute
         ResultSet rs = stmnt.executeQuery();

         while(rs.next())
         {
            try
            {
               // Get as a BLOB
               Blob aBlob = rs.getBlob(1);
               byte[] allBytesInBlob = aBlob.getBytes(1, 
               (int) aBlob.length());
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
               // The driver could not handle this as a BLOB...
               // Fallback to default (and slower) byte[] handling
               byte[] bytes = rs.getBytes(1);
            }
         }

       // Close resources
       rs.close();
       stmnt.close();

     }
     catch(Exception ex)
     {
       this.log("Error when trying to read BLOB: " + ex);
     }
}