> I checked out the source code from here:
>
> https://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/firebird/java-plugin/trunk
>
> Is that right?

No, you have to use CVS version. The SVN code is a fork for the Firebird
3.0 support for Java Stored Procedures. Later we will merge Jaybird 2.2
into SVN repository.

> If i set "octetsAsBytes" property to "true", does it mean "varchar octets" fields will be stored internally as byte[] in the driver instead of String?
>
> Is this the way to set this property?
>
> "jdbc:firebirdsql:......&octetsAsBytes=true"

Should be enough to simply &octetsAsBytes, but I need to check the
sources first.

Roman