[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1501?page=c... ] Jeff Schnitzer commented on HHH-1501: ------------------------------------- I'm in agreement with Sergey. I have developed some software that *theoretically* can be deployed on any database. This is one of the promises of ORM, no? In practice, this doesn't really work very well, and this is one of the reasons why. I should be able to declare a byte[] field in Java and Hibernate should figure out how to map that to various databases. You can point at Derby as broken (maybe it is) but the bottom line is that this is something the ORM layer should worry about, not individual developers - or worse - the poor bastards that download my code and try to run it against their obscure XYZ database. I'd like to say that my software works "on any database with a Hibernate dialect" but instead I have to say that my software works "on any database with a *working* Hibernate dialect". -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira