Weblogic temporary clob not getting written to or not reflecting text written to it.

I've posted this on Oracle's web site but I thought I would already try here:

Problem: Unable to write to an empty clob

Weblogic version 8.1, SP unknown

Oracle JDBC version - 1.4

Current code to create CLOB:
Statement s = c.createStatement();
return CLOB.createTemporary(
((weblogic.jdbc.extensions.WLConnection)s.getConnection()).getVendorConnection(),true, CLOB.DURATION_SESSION);
OR
((weblogic.jdbc.extensions.WLConnection)s.getConnection()).getVendorConnection(),true, CLOB.MODE_READWRITE);

Data trying to write to CLOB:
MERGE INTO APPEAL_FINAL_STATUS TGT
USING (SELECT STATUS.APPEAL_FINAL_STATUS_SK
FROM APPEAL_FINAL APPEAL,
APPEAL_FINAL_STATUS STATUS
WHERE APPEAL.DECISION_BATCH_SK = :V_DECISION_BATCH_SK
AND STATUS.APPEAL_ID = APPEAL.APPEAL_ID
AND STATUS.DECISION_BATCH_SK = APPEAL.DECISION_BATCH_SK
AND STATUS.APPEAL_STATUS = 'IN REVIEW' AND
AND APPEAL.DUPLICATE_APPEAL_ID IS NOT NULL) SRC
ON (TGT.APPEAL_FINAL_STATUS_SK = SRC.APPEAL_FINAL_STATUS_SK)
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE
SET TGT.APPEAL_STATUS = 'CLOSED DENIED'

Clob value before attempting to write: & K?3 .
??????

Code resulting in Result 1:
Writer writer = clob.setCharacterStream(0L);
writer.write(String.valueOf(sqlText).toCharArray());
writer.flush();
writer.close();

Result 1: Clob value from code that I run using JBOSS that works but doesn't work in Weblogic as you can see: & K?3 .
??????

Code resulting in Result 2:
char[] ch = new char[sqlText.length()];
System.out.println("char length - " + ch.length);

int ii = clob.putChars(1, ch);

Result 2:
char length - 619
clob value: & K?3 .
??????
clob from putchars items written - 619(this is the value of ii from the clob.putChars(1, ch) from result 2 above.

Code resulting in Result 3:
StringReader sr = new StringReader(sqlText);
char[] bufr = new char[clob.getChunkSize()];
int charsRead = 0;

OutputStream os = clob.getAsciiOutputStream();

for(charsRead = sr.read(bufr); charsRead>-1; charsRead = sr.read(bufr)){
os.write(charsRead);
}

os.flush();
os.close();
sr.close();

Result 3:
clob value: & K?3 .
??????

Code used to display clob:
Byte[] zz = clob.getBytes();
String xx = new String(zz);
System.out.println("clob value - " + xx);