Annotations are the Problem

I've been trying to work out how I can insert large data sets into SQL through Hibernate without requiring my data sets to fit an interface that splits when too large (the overhead of exception handling would be too much, anyway). It would be best if I could just designate my value with extra parameters in the @Lob annotation. However, the annotation has no such properties, even though the XML version of defining the information would support such a customization. I guess that's what I get for trying to cut corners: they cut me back.