seam generate-model with CHAR datype (Oracle)

[victoriaonsnow.viktor.rees.nexgo.de]

In our Oracle database there exists a lot of tables having CHAR columns. Unfortunately we cannot switch to VARCHAR2 data types.

Example:

CREATE TABLE DUMMY_TAB 
(       LINE_NO     NUMBER(5), 
        LINE_DATA   CHAR(10 byte), 

    CONSTRAINT "PK_DUMMY" PRIMARY KEY("LINE_NO")
);

Using seam generate-model an entity bean is created:

@Entity
@Table(name = "DUMMY_TAB")
public class DummyTab implements java.io.Serializable 
{
    :
    :

    @Column(name = "LINE_DATA", length = 10)
    @Length(max = 10)
    public String getLineData() 
    {
        return this.lineData;
    }

    public void setLineData(String lineData) {
        this.lineData = lineData;
    }
}

While deploying using seam restart following HibernateException is displayed:

--- MBEANS THAT ARE THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM ---
ObjectName: persistence.units:ear=DspProofOfConcept.ear,
jar=DspProofOfConcept.jar,unitName=DspProofOfConcept
  State: FAILED
  Reason: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: 
org.hibernate.HibernateException: 
  Wrong column type: LINE_DATA, expected: varchar2(10)

I unsuccessfully tried to use columnDefinition in order to tell hibernate to use CHAR datatype

  @Column(name="LINE_DATA", length=10, columnDefinition="CHAR")
  @Length(max = 10)
  public String getLineData() 
  {
        return this.lineData;
  }

The same exception is thrown while deploying the app.

Any ideas?

[victoriaonsnow.viktor.rees.nexgo.de]

Solution:

The value defined with columnDefinition is case sensitiv.

So please use

columnDefinition="char"

instead of

columnDefinition="CHAR"