Environment: JBoss Portal Version: jboss-portal-2.4.0-CR3-bundled Download: Bundled Portal Software JBoss AS Version: 4.0.4 GA Database Vendor and Version: Oracle 9i JDBC Connector and Version: Oracle 10.2.0.1 OS Platform: Windows 2000 Describe the problem: Portal blows up on CMS startup Post the error messages: java.lang.ClassCastException on setBlob Note: Try using newer version of JackRabbit - jackrabbit-core-1.0.1 with no luck. See below stack trace: 18:22:04,439 INFO [Dialect] Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect 18:22:04,459 INFO [SchemaExport] Running hbm2ddl schema export 18:22:04,469 INFO [SchemaExport] exporting generated schema to database 18:22:04,469 INFO [NamingHelper] JNDI InitialContext properties:{} 18:22:04,469 INFO [DatasourceConnectionProvider] Using datasource: java:PortalDS 18:22:05,580 INFO [SchemaExport] schema export complete 18:22:05,580 INFO [JCRCMS] Starting JCR CMS 18:22:05,971 INFO [RepositoryImpl] Starting repository... 18:22:06,492 WARN [TxConnectionManager] Connection error occured: org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.TxConnectionManager$TxConnec tionEventListener@157e43[state=NORMAL mc=org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.local.LocalManagedConnection@1d0740e handles=1 lastUse=1155 252126472 permit=true trackByTx=true mcp=org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.JBossManagedConnectionPool$OnePool@735aa1 context=org. jboss.resource.connectionmanager.InternalManagedConnectionPool@143294a xaResource=org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.TxConnectionM anager$LocalXAResource@4bdccc txSync=null] java.lang.ClassCastException at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.setBlob(OraclePreparedStatement.java:6794) at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedPreparedStatement.setBlob(WrappedPreparedStatement.java:517) at org.jboss.portal.jems.hibernate.CacheableBlobUserType.nullSafeSet(CacheableBlobUserType.java:97) at org.hibernate.type.CustomType.nullSafeSet(CustomType.java:145) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.dehydrate(AbstractEntityPersister.java:1910) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.dehydrate(AbstractEntityPersister.java:1887) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.insert(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2117) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.insert(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2503) at org.hibernate.action.EntityInsertAction.execute(EntityInsertAction.java:51) at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.execute(ActionQueue.java:248) at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:232) at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:139) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.performExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:297) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:27) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:993) at org.jboss.portal.cms.hibernate.HibernateStore$1.close(HibernateStore.java:1051) at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder$ConverterSE.implClose(Unknown Source) at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.close(Unknown Source) at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.close(Unknown Source) at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.RepositoryImpl.loadRootNodeId(RepositoryImpl.java:429) at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.RepositoryImpl.(RepositoryImpl.java:214) at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.RepositoryImpl.create(RepositoryImpl.java:483) at org.jboss.portal.cms.impl.jcr.jackrabbit.JackrabbitJCRService.start(JackrabbitJCRService.java:102) at org.jboss.portal.cms.impl.jcr.JCRCMS.startJCR(JCRCMS.java:200) at org.jboss.portal.cms.impl.jcr.JCRCMS.startService(JCRCMS.java:167) at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:289) at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:196) at org.jboss.portal.common.system.AbstractJBossService.start(AbstractJBossService.java:72) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor18.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:995) at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:417) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:435) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:435) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:435) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:435) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:435) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor10.invoke(Unknown Source) at 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