Casting from INTEGER database field to String Object property in ResultMap?

[Todd Langdon]

Hi,
I have a value that is stored as an Integer in the database but it is a
string on my domain object.  Is there no way to accomplish this via the
ResultMap alone?  It was giving me a "Specifed cast is not valid" until I
implemented a TypeHandlerCallback and specified it in the result typeHandler
attribute - is that the only way to handle type mismatches between the
persistence and object layers?
Thanks in advance,
Todd