I can't reproduce this. When I leave out the @Persistent annotation on the field or replace it with @Basic, I do indeed end up with a binary column. But if I correctly include the @Persistent annotation along with the @Externalizer, I get a varchar column. Can you narrow down your entity to the smallest possible class that exhibits the problem and post it to the list so we can try to reproduce the error?
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