I have a Person Object with attributes like name, age, sex etc which I wanna store in the sybase database. The column in which it is to be stored is of "text" datatype. I have converted the object into a Byte Output Stream and stored the object as a Byte Array in to the database. I have done something like this.. Code: ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); ObjectOutputStream oout = new ObjectOutputStream(baos); oout.writeObject(obj); oout.close(); ps.setBytes(1, baos.toByteArray()); Now when I want to read the object from the database I did something like this.. Code: byte[] buf = rs.getBytes(column); if (buf != null) { ObjectInputStream objectIn = new ObjectInputStream( new ByteArrayInputStream(buf)); Object obj = objectIn.readObject(); //Contains the object PersonDetails p = (PersonDetails)obj; System.out.println(p.getName()+"\t"+p.getAge()+"\t"+p.getSex()); } I used rs.getBytes and do the following as shown above. Gives me an sql exception. I used getClob also. Still it gives me some sql exception. What I want is the object back. How do I get it back. Basically My sybase column datatype is "text". Is there a better way to serialize the object and store in the databse. If there is one please let me know. Note that I cant change the type of column type (text) to any other type...