title: JPA property java.net.URL
body: <p>HI, </p>
  
  <p>I have an object which has a piece of URL-Information associated with it.
  Currently I save this URL in a simple String property, but java.net.URL would
  provide me with additional goodies such as detection of malformed URLs etc.</p>
  
  <p>On the other hand I would consider it very ugly, if JPA simply created a LOB for the URL-Object. Does anyone know how a property of the type java.net.URL will be persisted to
  the database by compliant JPA providers?</p>