Wrong NClob cast to Blob ------------------------ Key: HHH-7035 URL: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7035 Project: Hibernate ORM Issue Type: Bug Components: entity-manager Affects Versions: 3.6.8 Environment: jpa 2 jdk 6 ojdbc6-11.2.0.2.0 Reporter: stephan I read an entity from an Oracle 10gR2 database and the I try to write it to a Postgresql 8.3.14 dataabse. Here the entity : public class MyEntity { @javax.persistence.Lob java.sql.NClob prop; public void setProp(java.sql.NClob c) { prop=c; } public java.sql.NClob getProp() { return prop; } } When it's time to flush it to database, I get this exception : java.lang.ClassCastException: oracle.sql.NCLOB cannot be cast to java.sql.Blob at org.hibernate.type.BlobType.getReplacement(BlobType.java:37) at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.replace(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:359) at org.hibernate.type.TypeHelper.replace(TypeHelper.java:212) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.copyValues(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:600) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.mergeTransientEntity(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:337) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:303) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.entityIsDetached(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:464) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.onMerge(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:255) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.onMerge(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:84) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireMerge(SessionImpl.java:867) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.merge(SessionImpl.java:851) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.merge(SessionImpl.java:855) at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.merge(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:851) Hibernate should try to cast to a java.sql.Clob because oracle.sql.NClob implements java.sql.Clob -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira