Joda Time - DataNucleus/JPOX support

Overview

Joda-Time is a quality alternative and improvement on the JDK Date and Calendar classes. DataNucleus is a JDO/JPA compliant persistence engine.

This project supplies class mapping for Joda-Time classes to be persisted using DataNucleus/JPOX.

Requirements

• JDK 1.3+
• DataNucleus 1.0.0+ or JPOX 1.2.2+
• Joda-Time 1.5.0+

Releases

0.8.2 - Updated to DataNucleus 1.1.x releases.

0.8.1 - Fix for including types back into the default fetch group.

0.8.0 - Updated dependency from JPOX 1.2.2 to DataNucleus 1.0.0 Final.

0.7.0 [Initial Release]- Contains mappings for DateTime, DateTimeZone, Duration, Interval, LocalDate, LocalTime, and Period.

Maven Repository

<repository>
    <id>joda-time-datanucleus</id>
    <name>Joda Time Mapping for Datanucleus</name>
    <url>http://joda-time-jpox.googlecode.com/svn/repository</url>
    <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
    </snapshots>
    <releases>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
    </releases>
</repository>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.code.joda-time-jpox</groupId>
    <artifactId>joda-time-datanucleus</artifactId>
    <version>0.8.2</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Available Types

The main types that can be persisted

Class	SQL Column Type	Description
DateTime	TIMESTAMP
DateTimeZone	VARCHAR
Duration	VARCHAR	The format is PTnS where n is the value.
Interval	TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP	Two columns for start and end of interval.
LocalDate	TIMESTAMP
LocalTime	INTEGER	Number of milliseconds
Period	VARCHAR	The format is PnYnMnWnDTnHnMnS where n is the value