Persisting Joda DateTime instead of Java Date in Hibernate

Question

My entities currently contain java Date properties. I\'m starting to use Joda Time for date manipulation and calculations quite frequently. This means that I\'m constantly hav

Answer 1

Joda Time Hibernate can be used with recent Hibernate releases - you may need a little bit of tweaking your dependency graph thats all (e.g. setting exclusions). Can I also suggest you look at User Type, which I have released onto Sourceforge. This provides User Types for Joda Time which aim to avoid the client offset issue you mentioned. I would welcome any feedback you have on that project. https://sourceforge.net/projects/usertype/files/

Regards Chris.