Thin JDBC Drivers Insert Strings Incorrectly

Can anyone confirm or deny this.
I've downloaded the latest Oracle 8i JDBC drivers. If I create a table:
CREATE TABLE Moo (stringCol VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL);
and I try to insert an empty String into Moo.stringCol, the JDBC drivers try to insert Null instead! Yet if I try and insert a String of one character in length, it inserts it correctly.
Clearly it would seem the JDBC drivers are at fault.
Anyone come across this?

No, the drivers are performing correctly. In Oracle, an empty string in a varchar or varchar2 column is considered NULL. Regardless of what protocol or language you use to access the database, this will hold true.
Justin

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