Oracle Char type and Hibernate

Question

I have a oracle table which contains char(n) type for several columns. I use hibernate tools to create entities objets and this tool map char type in String.

But when I

Answer 1

Doesn't work - fails Hibernate schema validation:

@Column(name="ENABLED_FLAG", length=1)
private String enabledFlag;

Does work, since the columnDefinition attribute tells Hibernate not to default to VARCHAR2 as the column type, and to use CHAR instead:

@Column(name="ENABLED_FLAG", length=1, columnDefinition="CHAR")
private String enabledFlag;

The column in the database is defined as:

ENABLED_FLAG CHAR(1 BYTE)