Hibernate @Temporal for Java 8 java.time.Instant

Question

I use Hibernate and try to do the following:

@Temporal(TemporalType.DATE) @Column(name = "BIRTHDAY") private Instant birthday; 

but have this exception:

Caused by: org.hibernate.AnnotationException: @Temporal should only be set on a java.util.Date or java.util.Calendar property: 

As was suggested I tried to use

<dependency>     <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>     <artifactId>hibernate-java8</artifactId>     <version>${hibernate.ver}</version> </dependency> 

but have the same exception. Should I do some additional steps or how to resolve such a case?

Answer 1

You can not use @Temporal with java 8 time, if you want date with time use LocalDateTime, if you want only date use LocalDate without @Temporal anotation.

look also http://www.thoughts-on-java.org/persist-localdate-localdatetime-jpa/