[ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-1843?page=com.atlassian.jira.plug... ] Alejandro Guizar commented on JBPM-1843: ---------------------------------------- In my user branch I reverted properties of type text to string with length 4000, exactly as they were in jBPM 3.2.x. In the specific case of Sybase, we have a request for the text type filed as JBPM-701. The text type was also requested for DB2 when we support it. We have at least three options. 1. Provide Sybase-specific mapping documents, as shown below. The problem with this approach is that the documents contain duplicate mappings and pose a maintenance problem. Furthermore, this option would also lead us to introduce DB2-specific mappings in the future. Node.hbm.xml <property name="description" column="DESCRIPTION_" length="4000"> <type name="string_max"> <param name="length">4000</param> </type> </property> Node.sybase.hbm.xml <property name="description" column="DESCRIPTION_" type="text"/> 2. Introduce a "jbpm_text" type definition. Resolve the type to "text" or "string" according to the target database. hibernate.types.default.hbm.xml <typedef name="jbpm_text" class="org.hibernate.type.StringType"> <param name="length">4000</param> </typedef> hibernate.types.sybase.hbm.xml <typedef name="jbpm_text" class="org.hibernate.type.TextType" /> Node.hbm.xml <property name="description" column="DESCRIPTION_" type="jbpm_text"/> The class attribute may have to point to a UserType implementation, as opposed to a standard Type implementation, but you get the idea. For more information: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/mapping-types.html... 3. Same as (2) except we replace "jbpm_text" occurrences in the mapping files with "text" or "string", according to the target database. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira