title: Can Hibernate automatically uppercase a column on read/insert via configuration?
body: <p>We have some columns with data that must always be in uppercase to ensure uniqueness.  I was wondering if hibernate can force all such columns to uppercase via some configuration file change?</p>
  
  <p>We actually use a custom UserType for encrypting/decrypting column data for some other table, but I figured that would be overkill just to uppercase everything...</p>
  
  <p>Alternatively, I was thinking about modifying the models such that all getters/setters will uppercase any string coming and going.</p>
  
  <p>The worst(?) case scenario is to modify the Oracle column constraint to ignore case while checking uniqueness.</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts?</p>