[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Resolved: (EJBTHREE-802) JBoss maps java.math.BigDecimal to numeric(19,2) for Firebird 1.5 DB. Firebird complains precision must be <= 18.

JBoss maps java.math.BigDecimal to numeric(19,2) for Firebird 1.5 DB. Firebird complains precision must be <= 18. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: EJBTHREE-802 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-802 Project: EJB 3.0 Issue Type: Bug Environment: JBossAS-4.0.4.GA, Firebird 1.5, Fedora Core 5 Linux. Reporter: knaveofhearts Assigned To: Carlo de Wolf This is a problem with EJB 3 entity persistence with CMP. I have several classes in which member variables are declared as BigDecimal. The classes all work fine with HSQLDB, which I have been using for rapid development, using the create-drop capability. I tried to switch the backend to Firebird 1.5 by changing the two relevant files (if I recall, persistence.xml and the []-ds.xml file), and managed to remove all the problems (e.g., Fireword reserve words like "role", "user", and "type" that I used as class or attribute names) except for BigDecimal fields. The server log says that BigDecimal is being mapped to numeric(19,2), but the maximum precision for Firebird is 18. If I replace all the BigDecimal fields with double, then my basic DB access tests run okay. I have posted this problem to two JBoss forums (EJB3 and Persistence) and to one Firebird forum (Firebird-Java), but have gotten no replies. If there is an easy fix, I would appreciate learning about it.