I have been using Hibernate for some time and have finally come across something i cant explain.

I am inserting some records, and for some reason Hibernate is changing my value and inserting a random one. Examples of the values Hibernate is using are listed. I am setting the property manually with a specific integer, but this is what Hibernate gives me...

1.11E-42, 1.27E-52, 8.2E45, etc...

Strange.

Filling those fields out instead of deleting them would really help out if anyone is going to try solving this.

jdl is right.
What do you expect us to answer without any information provided?

Post your mappings, your POJOs, code...

didn't expect a solution. just wondering if anyone came across something like this. if not thats cool. i'll just keep looking into it. i'm not going to sit here and publish my companies source to get a resolution. right now i just manually save the objects using sql as a stop gap. the code wouldn't help much. hibernate 2.1.8 with oracle 8i. its a standard setup like many others i have. an object has a parent. attached parent to child, and added child to parent. save parent. parent is saved ok. child is saved ok too, but the foreign key that should point to the parent is a huge random number. funny thing is that i can use normal sql to do this ok. i.e. i have a prepared statement and i set the parent object id parameter using child.getParent().getId(). this works ok.

Really looks like we have some nice new people here this week. Fantastic...

Well, there are some solutions to this.
You could rename your class names, table names, packages or whatever. Alternatively, and probably even better, you could create a little test case showing your problem.

But this way no one will be able to help you.