Hi,
Is there a ClobImpl for mapping strings to clobs out there?

Thanks,
Jeevak

You use Oracle?

I am not sure If you like this solution. But here http://l3x.net/imwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JdbcOraWrapper
you could find a jdbc wrapper which does this automatically (works with oracle 9) without the needs to change the application code.

rumors are that oracle fixed this with their 10g jdbc driver, though never tried it.

Or see:

http://www.hibernate.org/56.html
http://www.hibernate.org/76.html
http://www.hibernate.org/112.html (mysql)

Oh, and for sure hibernate3 has some support for clobs too
http://www.hibernate.org/250.html.

Again - never tried it.

where is the
class?

It looks like it was added at 2005-03-02 and thus you might have to use the cvs version of hibernate3.

{{{
im@linTs1:~/projects/Hibernate3> grep -ir SerializableClob *
Übereinstimmungen in Binärdatei build/classes/org/hibernate/lob/SerializableClob.class.
Übereinstimmungen in Binärdatei build/classes/org/hibernate/type/ClobType.class.
Übereinstimmungen in Binärdatei classes/org/hibernate/type/ClobType.class.
Übereinstimmungen in Binärdatei classes/org/hibernate/lob/SerializableClob.class.
src/org/hibernate/lob/CVS/Entries:/SerializableClob.java/1.1/Wed Mar 02 11:43:35 2005//
src/org/hibernate/lob/SerializableClob.java://$Id: SerializableClob.java,v 1.1 2005/03/02 11:43:35 oneovthafew Exp $
src/org/hibernate/lob/SerializableClob.java:public class SerializableClob implements Serializable, Clob {
src/org/hibernate/lob/SerializableClob.java: public SerializableClob(Clob blob) {
src/org/hibernate/type/ClobType.java:import org.hibernate.lob.SerializableClob;
src/org/hibernate/type/ClobType.java: return rs.wasNull() ? null : new SerializableClob(value);
im@linTs1:~/projects/Hibernate3>
}}}