For Date and its ilk, and arrays, providing special handling for them is reasonable. Arrays of immutables will be a pain, but then so is caching of LOB's (should we even cache LOB's?)
If, then we should only cache the LOB itself. Ie the locator object and never the data it points to. Following the LOB and caching all data is like dereferencing a void* in C (you don't want to go into the void). ;)
When using eg Oracle Intermedia for large texts in CLOB data or storing binary images with BLOBs, the cache would choke.
Regards, Martin
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