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

I think it returns type Long. I have used Long in my code. But if your BigDecimal works then even I want to know what is the return type :)