I have an entity bean with a boolean column called active. The database table stores it as a bit(1). I see all the values have a b. I can't seem to update these regardless of what I do. So for example: My object has an attribute status of type boolean. I create the object, set it to false and call em.persist. The value in the db is b. I create the object, set it to false and call em.persist. The value is still b. I was thinking of changing it to an int and doing the conversion myself but there has to be a way to get this work without mucking up the code. Thanks for your help! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4089006#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...