Using Oracle XMLType column in hibernate

Question

I need to map Oracle XMLType column to hibernate entity class. There is a working (and I think well-known) solution that involves implementing UserType; however

Answer 1

There exists an even more simple solution for this. Just use the ColumnTransformer Annotation.

@ColumnTransformer(read = "to_clob(data)", write = "?")
@Column( name = "data", nullable = false, columnDefinition = "XMLType" )
private String data;`