What object type does Spring Hibernate Template execute method return for a counting query on Oracle?

Question

When run against and Oracle database, what is the runtime type of the object that the following Spring Hibernate Template (Spring 2.5 and Hibernate 3.3.2GA) code returns whe

Answer 1

How about

long value = ((Number)query.uniqueResult()).longValue();
return Long.valueOf(value);

This would work for all subclasses of Number like Long, Double, Biginteger or BigDecimal.