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

So, to sum it up:

java.util.Date

• + native support in Hibernate
• – bad API

Joda-Time

• + better API
• – lack of native support in Hibernate

Personally, if I could keep the domain model and "service layer" clean by just using a third party library (apparently User Type for Hibernate in this case) and the alternative would be to write some extra code to do the conversion "manually" every time it was needed, I'd go with the third party library.