I have the following mappings in my config file and Im using the ojdbc14.jar and the oci driver for the oracle 10g database.

<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
</property>
<property name="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">
org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory
</property>
<property name="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">0</property>
<property name="hibernate.jdbc.use_streams_for_binary">true</property>

My persistent classes have the following setter and getters

public byte[] getTemplateValue () {
return templateValue;
}

public void setTemplateValue (byte[] templateValue) {
this.templateValue = templateValue;
}


The retrieval returns a larger byte array than what was set using the setter.

Jeevak