The JDBC Engineers at ANTs have been busy fixing the bugs (a & b) in their Driver. Today, I received an email from them saying:

We have been tracking your issue as case 1206. As per your statements, we had logged the following bugs, which have been resolved, fixed & verified.

Bug 1415: JDBC getParameterTypeName() returns unknown for Date Datatype.

Bug 1416: JDBC getParameterClassName() method returns hard-coded string as "java.sql.ParameterMetaData"

Bug 1596: ANTs JDBC driver doesn't get registered

Bug 1597: ANTs JDBC Issue - NULL is inserted when Long.MIN_VALUE is inserted into bigint column

Cool! So, we should be seeing these changes in their next release.