How to persist LocalDate with JPA?

Question

I want to store Date without time into my database. So, I choose to use LocalDate type.

As mentioned in this article, I use a JPA converter to convert

Answer 1

Hibernate 5 supports java 8, so you can add this to your pom.xml:

    org.hibernate
    hibernate-java8
    5.1.0.Final

This gives you mapping for LocalDate and LocalDateTime out of box.