Arthur Abramov rifttech

The problem

It seems like mapping a LOB-type from Hibernate is not as easy as you'd think. If you're like me, you'll toss something like the following annotation to a POJO and hoping that all is fine:

@Lob
@Column(name = "picture")
private byte[] picture;

However, lo and behold - things is not as expected. Hibernate throws all kinds of fancy exceptions - such as:

	public class BlockingQueue implements Queue {

	private java.util.Queue queue = new java.util.LinkedList();

	/**
	* Make a blocking Dequeue call so that we'll only return when the queue has
	* something on it, otherwise we'll wait until something is put on it.
	*
	* @returns This will return null if the thread wait() call is interrupted.
	*/