From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:58:53 PDT

I would log an issue against DerbyPlatform:
class oracle.toplink.platform.database.DerbyPlatform should specify a reasonable field size in buildFieldTypes method for BigDecimal: for OraclePlatform and SybasePlatform it's 38; for DB2Platform its 15 - probably should be 15 for Derby, too?
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