Hello, first of all i'm very new of HB and i'm sorry for my poor english.
I have this trobule: In my application I'm using the tables mapping filled with column length property.
I would like to know what it is used for, because when i insert a new record with a bigger length i get an oracle error (too large field). Can i setup hibernate to truncate the entity string with a length bigger than the specified mapping column length?

Thank you very much.

Better yet, why not do it programatically during a validation phase?

Yes, i can do, but so I can not understand what this "length" property is used for...
If i do it programmatically i need to add all field lenghts to my code although in HB mapping there are these informations