If your DBMS column is of type CLOB, then you really should declare the column
type to be 'OracleClob'. Not doing so may cause you problems when the CLOB data
gets large in size. The deprecation warnings can be ignored.

-thorick


"dharmon" wrote:
>
>"Leo J. Hart IV" wrote:
>>
>>Great! That's what I had hoped. Thanks for your quick reply!
>>
>>Leo
>
>I too was concerned about the deprecation warnings. With trial and error,
>I removed
>the OracleClob entry, redeployed,
>and was
>pleased to see that I was able to read and write to the CLOB column using
>WLS8.1SP2
>and Oracle9i. No more deprecation warnings!