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Posted by Rob Thornton on Feb 01, 2007
Stephen Colebourne has announced JSR 310, a new Date and Time API, to be based on Joda-Time and hopefully shipping in Java 7. As the JSR reads, the goal is to provide a more advanced and comprehensive model for date and time than those found in the Date and Calendar APIs.
Colebourne is the Project Lead for Joda-Time, and he states that while the JSR will be influenced by Joda-Time, it will not be a rubber stamp of it. Alex Miller lists some of the problems of the current API, from the perspective of working with JDBC drivers.
Colebourne has solicited input in a thread on JavaLobby. Some of the feedback that has already come in includes:
The question of compatibility with existing Date and Calendar classes has also come up, with some saying it is necessary and others saying that at the most there should be a helper class for conversions.
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I think this is long overdue. Joda-Time is a very good library and we have suffered for so long at the hands of the JDK Date classes.
As long as this includes good JDBC integration this should be a win for everyone. We have used joda-time almost exclusively but having to perform conversions to and from JDBC calls is awkward.
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