On 26 Mar 2004 19:23, dannwebster wrote:

><snip>
>This code always throws a ClassCastException on this line:

><code>
>oracle.sql.BLOB blob = (oracle.sql.BLOB) foo.getBlob();
></code>

>This problem is actually simply because the offending foo was part of
a
>lazy-loaded object fetched as part of a collection. It goes away if
the
>object itself is refreshed, or if Hibernate.initialize() is called on
>the collection that foo is part of.

I'm using Weblogic 8.1 and I continued to get a ClassCastException at 
that line even after refreshing the object.  The solution was to use 
the Weblogic 8.1 Oracle extensions found in weblogic.jar

<code>
import weblogic.jdbc.vendor.oracle.OracleThinBlob;

...
OracleThinBlob blob = (OracleThinBlob)foo.getBlob();
...
</code>