Passing parameters to functions from Java

Having trouble with dates and smallints so far.
I think you get around it using casts like this:

CallableStatement cs = conn.prepareCall("{ ? = call
ifc_send_status_change( date(?), int2(?) )}");
java.sql.Date date;
date = new java.sql.Date(2002 - 1900, 02 - 1, 26);
System.out.println("date is " + date);
cs.registerOutParameter(1, Types.INTEGER);
cs.setString(2, "2002-02-26");
// cs.setShort(2, (short)1);
// cs.setDate(2, date);
cs.setShort(3, (short)2);
// 2002-02-26, 1
cs.execute();
int rowCount = cs.getInt(1);
System.out.println("row count is " + rowCount);

Is there any decent documentation on this? Can't find any by the obvious
routes - all examples are too trivial.

Regards

Sean Elliott

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