Hi,

The Hibernate3 Migration Guide states that a SerializableBlob allows a blob to be "detached, serialized, deserialized, and passed to merge()" yet this contradicts a previous post http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.ph ... ialization and the SerializableBlob source-code which states "Blobs may not be accessed after serialization".

My question is, how is one supposed to use SerializableBlob to detach, serialize and deserialize blob properties? Can you please give a brief example source-code of a blob being loaded, detached, modified, reattached and saved back into the database? Also please explain how one is supposed to serializable then deserializable a SerializableBlob and continue using it if the source-code explicitly states that blobs may not be accessed after serialization.

Thank you.