Why use LONG RAW?

When using database persistence with Oracle, why does the Sun JMS Broker create LONG RAW columns, rather than BLOBs? I believe Oracle does not recommend the use of LONG RAW so it's essentially an obsolete datatype and should not be used.
[252 byte] By [kibitzer] at [2007-11-25 20:39:14]
# 1
This is a bug (6260789) and will be fixed in a later release.
jfddp at 2007-7-4 18:14:11 > top of Java-index,Application & Integration Servers,Sun Java System Message Queue...
# 2
Great, thanks for the pointer. Anyone know how far away MQ 4.0 is?
kibitzer at 2007-7-4 18:14:11 > top of Java-index,Application & Integration Servers,Sun Java System Message Queue...