I'm interested in using Hibernate Core + Annotations (versions 3.3.1.GA and 3.4.0.GA, respectively) to interact with some Oracle object types. I found the page at https://www.hibernate.org/261.html, but still have some questions:

1) This page seems to imply that hibernate 3.0+(?) has integrated support for oracle object types. Is that true? If so, where can I read about it? Or by "integrated" does it mean "just write your own custom types" like the page says?
2) Can I use annotations with oracle object types?

Thanks,
Dan