What are the best workarounds for known problems with Hibernate's schema validation of floating point columns when using Oracle 10g?

Question

I have several Java classes with double fields that I am persisting via Hibernate. For example, I have

@Entity
public class Node ...

  private double value         


        

Answer 1

There was a similar problem HHH-1598 with HSQL mappings of boolean fields, and a discussion of it here.

The solution I chose to use was in the discussion referenced above, with an extension of HSQLDialect.

I saw no problems with this, though I only use HSQL in tests.

It certainly doesn't interfere with any other DB.