--- oracle/toplink/essentials/internal/helper/ConversionManager.java	2006-04-27 17:51:46.000000000 +0100
+++ /home/ijuma82/workspaces/rssowl2/org.rssowl.lib.jpa/src/oracle/toplink/essentials/internal/helper/ConversionManager.java	2006-12-06 12:26:06.000000000 +0000
@@ -21,14 +21,24 @@
 // Copyright (c) 1998, 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved.  
 package oracle.toplink.essentials.internal.helper;
 
-import java.math.*;
-import java.util.*;
-import java.io.*;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.math.BigDecimal;
+import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.security.AccessController;
 import java.security.PrivilegedActionException;
-import java.sql.*;
+import java.sql.Blob;
+import java.sql.Clob;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.sql.Time;
+import java.sql.Timestamp;
+import java.util.Calendar;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Hashtable;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Vector;
 
-import oracle.toplink.essentials.exceptions.*;
+import oracle.toplink.essentials.exceptions.ConversionException;
+import oracle.toplink.essentials.exceptions.DatabaseException;
 import oracle.toplink.essentials.internal.security.PrivilegedAccessHelper;
 import oracle.toplink.essentials.internal.security.PrivilegedGetClassLoaderForClass;
 import oracle.toplink.essentials.internal.security.PrivilegedGetContextClassLoader;
@@ -401,6 +411,9 @@
             // bug # 2799318
             theClass = getPrimitiveClass((String)sourceObject);
             if (theClass == null) {
+            	theClass = getArrayClass((String)sourceObject);
+            }
+            if (theClass == null) {
                 theClass = getLoader().loadClass((String)sourceObject);
             }
         } catch (Exception exception) {
@@ -409,7 +422,14 @@
         return theClass;
     }
 
-    /**
+    private Class getArrayClass(String classType) throws ClassNotFoundException {
+		if (!classType.startsWith("[")) {
+			return null;
+		}
+		return Class.forName(classType, true, getLoader());
+	}
+
+	/**
       * Convert the object to an instance of java.sql.Date.
       *    @param    sourceObject Object of type java.sql.Timestamp, java.util.Date, String or Long
       */