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@Lob
By default, EclipseLink persistence provider assumes that all persistent data can be represented as typical database data types.
Use the @Lob annotation with the @Basic mapping to specify that a persistent property or field should be persisted as a large object to a database-supported large object type.
A Lob may be either a binary or character type. The persistence provider infers the Lob type from the type of the persistent field or property.
For String and character-based types, the default is Clob. In all other cases, the default is Blob.
You can also use the @Column attribute columnDefinition to further refine the Lob type.
For more information, see Section 9.1.5 "Column Annotation" in the JPA Specification.
The @Lob annotation does not have attributes.
The following example shows how to use this @Lob annotation to specify that persistent field pic should be persisted as a Blob.
Example: @Lob
@Entity public class Employee implements Serializable { ... @Lob @Basic(fetch=LAZY) @Column(name="EMP_PIC", columnDefinition="BLOB NOT NULL") protected byte[] pic; ... }
For more information, see Section 9.1.20 "Temporal Annotation" in the JPA Specification.