Hi, I've mapped Oracle's spatial type as per the nice advice here: http://www.hibernate.org/402.html.

This seems to work great for Oracle Spatial, but I have a completely different persistence unit that I use for unit testing with HSQL-DB, which obviously is not going to support the special UserType.

I'm using JPA annotations, and the field in particular looks like this:



My question is: is there some way to *not map* this or map the type differently (as VARBINARY) for the HSQL-DB persistence unit?

You use annotations to map. If you want to be more flexible you can use Hibernate xml mapping files.

What could work might be to duplicate your mapping from annotations in xml files, setup a configuration which only use mapping files.