Persist Joda-time's DateTime via Hibernate

Question

I\'m using Jodatime in my Play app, but currently having to do a bunch of converting back and forth from/to java.util.Date and java.sql.Time.

Answer 1

1. Joda recommends to use the UserType libraries with Hibernate 4.0, the version of Hibernate bundled with Play 1.2.x (see: http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/contrib/hibernate/index.html).

2. The proper way to handle the dependency is using the dependencies.yml file, including a line like this:

   - org.jadira.usertype -> usertype.jodatime 2.0.1