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

I think using the Joda DateTime as your bean property type is probably a good idea. You can then have Hibernate do the conversion and save the property as the native database date format.

I have personally used jodatime-hibernate and have not had a problem with it (we're using Hibernate 3.2.5GA).

If you have concerns about jodatime-hibernate, you can always use Hibernate's custom type mapping mechanism (which I'm sure is all jodatime-hibernate does).