Overcomplicated oracle jdbc BLOB handling

Question

When I search the web for inserting BLOBs into Oracle database with jdbc thin driver, most of the webpages suggest a 3-step approach:

1. insert empty_blob()

Answer 1

I found a simple call to setObject(pos, byte[]) works for my case. From Database Programming with JDBC and Java By George Reese,

        byte[] data = null;
        stmt = con.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO BlobTest(fileName, "
            + "blobData) VALUES(?, ?)");
        stmt.setString(1, "some-file.txt");
        stmt.setObject(2, data, Types.BLOB);
        stmt.executeUpdate();