On 07 Jan 2004 11:03, neil_g_avery wrote:

>Would it be possible to code scenario 1) as implied below ? - and hide
>that code in the user defined type? This means we need a reference to
>the session and current object we are trying to persist.

><<snip>>
>foo = new Foo();
>foo.setClob( Hibernate.createClob(" ") );
>s.save(foo);
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><<snip>>

Unfortunately, you cannot call save(), update(), flush() and so on in
the type mapper.