Hi,
I recently ran into a problem concerning binary types in Oracle.
Finally I found the "hibernate.jdbc.use_streams_for_binary" property which is set by the Oracle9Dialect class. But this has no effect because BinaryType only checks the System scoped configuration (Environment#useStreamsForBinary).
IMO "hibernate.jdbc.use_streams_for_binary" (as well "hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer") should be a SessionFactory scoped configuration property (-> net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration). Or am I missing anything?

Thanks,
Ralf

historical reasons probably ;-)