Well as I thought, it wasn't that hard to add it back in. All the code was still there, IBM had only removed the code from the SQL statement parser to create tables with such fields. I have it working to some degree. I just added a data type "JAVA" to the parser. It should be more elegant though, probably taking a Java type as well to provide some type safing, right now it just supports anything that implements java.io.Serializable. I haven't looked at the SQL99 spec ye, but if implementing it in that manor works for my needs I will try to do it that way.
I am working with my legal department still to get sign off on introducing patches back to the project. As soon as get it I will post my patches.
