// column is column index in ResultSet containing the image, 
// we assume that the type is LONGVARBINARY
Image myImage = null;
InputStream stream = rset.getBinaryStream(column); 
ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
try {
  int a1 = stream.read();
  while (a1 >= 0) {
    output.write((char)a1);
     a1 = stream.read();
     }
  myImage = 
    Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(output.toByteArray());
  output.close();
  }
catch(Exception e){}