User-defined types allows you to create user-defined types. A user-defined type is a serializable Java class whose instances are stored in columns. The class must implement the java.io.Serializable interface. user-defined types data typesuser-defined

For information on creating and removing types, see and . See and for information on usage privileges for types.

For information on writing the Java classes that implement user-defined types, see "Programming user-defined types" in the .