Hibernate custom UserType isn't working

Question

I\'ve created a UserType (see below) to handle a situation in our mySQL database where we\'ve been saving null dates as 0000-00-00 00:00:00.

When I try and persist m

Answer 1

Ready and working solution for DATE and TIME: How to map MySQL DATE '0000-00-00' & TIME '00:00:00' with Hibernate

Thanks Preston for the code and ChssPly76 for useful comments.