Java: How to insert CLOB into oracle database

OUTDATED See Lukas Eder's answer below.

With about 100 lines of code ;-) Here is an example.

The main point: Unlike with other JDBC drivers, the one from Oracle doesn't support using Reader and InputStream as parameters of an INSERT. Instead, you must SELECT the CLOB column FOR UPDATE and then write into the ResultSet

I suggest that you move this code into a helper method/class. Otherwise, it will pollute the rest of your code.

passing the xml content as string.

table1 

ID   int
XML  CLOB



import oracle.jdbc.OraclePreparedStatement;
/*
Your Code
*/
 void insert(int id, String xml){
    try {
        String sql = "INSERT INTO table1(ID,XML) VALUES ("
                + id
                + "', ? )";
        PreparedStatement ps = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
        ((OraclePreparedStatement) ps).setStringForClob(1, xml);
        ps.execute();
        result = true;
        } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

The easiest way is to simply use the

stmt.setString(position, xml);

methods (for "small" strings which can be easily kept in Java memory), or

try {
  java.sql.Clob clob = 
    oracle.sql.CLOB.createTemporary(
      connection, false, oracle.sql.CLOB.DURATION_SESSION);

  clob.setString(1, xml);
  stmt.setClob(position, clob);
  stmt.execute();
}

// Important!
finally {
  clob.free();
}