But see that's different. You have explicitly named the type you'd like used (binary). That is a simple matter of changing the explicit type from "binary" to "org.hibernate.type.MaterializedBlobType" or just "materialized_blob".

What I am more talking about is Hibernate interpreting the type to use rather than cases where you explicitly tell it. Here that would mean something like:

<property name="data" />
<property name="image" />