Hello friend, i am using Spring hibernate
this is my jsp field
<form:textarea path="EMP_MAN_MID_ASSES" disabled="disabled" rows="5" cols="70" cssClass="textbox" />
i want to store it into database as blob field
this is my POJO entity bean definition
@Lob
@Column(name="EMP_GOAL_QD1")
String EMP_GOAL_QD1;

public byte[] getEMP_GOAL_QD1() {
return EMP_GOAL_QD1.getBytes();
}
public void setEMP_GOAL_QD1(String eMPGOALQD1) {
EMP_GOAL_QD1 = eMPGOALQD1;
}

and i am using hibernate template save method to save it
i am usind DB2 database and in database table this field is BLOB

i am not abe to save it...
plz help