JAXB and Joda-Time: Dates and Times

Joda-Time provides an alternative to the Date and Calendar classes currently provided in Java SE.  Since they are provided in a separate library JAXB does not provide a default mapping for these classes.  We can supply the necessary mapping via XmlAdapters.  In this post we will cover the following Joda-Time types:  DateTime, DateMidnight, LocalDate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime.

JAXB and Date/Time Properties

In this post I will describe how JAXB handles date/time information.  This post will also cover how the @XmlSchemaType annotation can be used to customize the XML representation.