Thanks for the reply Jay. I am using Spring 3.0.7 with JBoss 7.1.1 and trying to insert a CLOB into Oracle.

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<!-- NativeJdbcExtractor -->
<bean id="nativeJdbcExtractor" class="org.springframework.jdbc.support.nativejdbc.JBossNativeJdbcExtractor" lazy-init="true" scope="prototype"/>           
    
<!-- LobHandler for Oracle JDBC drivers -->
<bean id="lobHandler" class="org.springframework.jdbc.support.lob.OracleLobHandler" lazy-init="true" scope="prototype">
<property name="nativeJdbcExtractor"><ref local="nativeJdbcExtractor"/></property>
</bean> 
  
<!-- LobHandler is not thread-safe so this class needs prototype scope -->
<bean id="updateDao" class="com.mycompany.service.soap.data.UpdateDaoJdbc" scope="prototype">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSourceXA" />
<property name="lobHandler" ref="lobHandler" />
</bean>
...

My unit tests outside of JBoss work; i am using DBCP witht he nativeJdbcExtractor of: <bean id="nativeJdbcExtractor" class="org.springframework.jdbc.support.nativejdbc.CommonsDbcpNativeJdbcExtractor" lazy-init="true" scope="prototype"/>. So i believe my code is working. Just having an issue when i run in Jboss.

looking at the Spring source, even the latest 3.1.1.FINAL...

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public class JBossNativeJdbcExtractor extends NativeJdbcExtractorAdapter {

     private static final String WRAPPED_CONNECTION_NAME = "org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedConnection";
     private static final String WRAPPED_STATEMENT_NAME = "org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedStatement"; 
     private static final String WRAPPED_RESULT_SET_NAME = "org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedResultSet";
...

(Attached Spring 3.1.1.FINAL source for reference)

looks like they need to update their code.  In the mean time i suppose i could implement my own JBoss7NativeJdbcExtractor.  Which i did, but now it is telling me:

Could not initialize JBossNativeJdbcExtractor because JBoss API classes are not available: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.WrappedConnection

i got it working!  I cut and pasted the Spring 3.1.1 code and simply replaced the constants with the new packages as in...

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private static final String WRAPPED_CONNECTION_NAME = "org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.WrappedConnection";
private static final String WRAPPED_STATEMENT_NAME = "org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.WrappedStatement";
private static final String WRAPPED_RESULT_SET_NAME = "org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.WrappedResultSet";
...

i then included a jboss-deployment-structure.xml file to include the dependency on the missing class...

<jboss-deployment-structure>
     <deployment>
          <!-- need this for Spring CLOB along with my custom JBoss7NativeJdbcExtractor -->     
          <dependencies>
               <module name="org.jboss.ironjacamar.jdbcadapters" />
          </dependencies>        
     </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>