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Hibernate version:

3

My question is about a UserType implemetation for fixed length CHARS. The implementation is found at: http://www.hibernate.org/388.html

Can anyone justify why, in the deepCopy(...) method, one needs to use new String(...)? If the object is a String already it seems that you are taking two unessessary performance hits: 1) A cast, 2) the use of new String(...).

Why not just return the Object value directly, thereby increasing performance.

Thank you for your time and efforts.