Spring Boot: using Joda Time on JPA entities with Hibernate

See here for more informations: http://blog.netgloo.com/2015/04/06/spring-boot-using-joda-time-on-jpa-entity-with-hibernate/

Build and run

Configurations

• Open the application.properties file and set your own configurations (mainly database's connection parameters).
• Create the MySQL database configured inside the application.properties.

Prerequisites

• Java 8
• Maven > 3.0

From terminal

Go on the project's root folder, then type:

$ mvn spring-boot:run

From Eclipse (Spring Tool Suite)

Import as Existing Maven Project and run it as Spring Boot App.

Usage

• Run the application
• Take a look to your database schema: Hibernate creates the table users with date columns having the expected types.
• Go on http://localhost:8080/, insert a date in the form and click save: will be created a new entry in the database's table with the given date.