 
 value to be stored in the entity attribute.
 Note that it is the responsibility of the converter writer to
 specify the correct <code>dbData</code> type for the corresponding 
 column for use by the JDBC driver: i.e., persistence providers are 
 not expected to do such type conversion.</div>
<dl>
<dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
<dd><code>dbData</code> - the data from the database column to be 
                converted</dd>
<dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
<dd>the c