Date is pretty much deprecated except for a way to carry a long
primitive around because of the TZ and conversions it lacks. It fails
in some cases and most of the core API on Date is deprecated. Most
folks should be using Calendar for date and time correctness if they
don't want to use Joda and stick with the JDK classes. Calendar
however is very clunky and mutable. Therefore, most people I know that
need to internationalize or localize use Joda because it is correct,
simple and immutable. Also, something very similar to the Joda date/
time API is probably going to be in Java 8.0 or something like that
via JSR 310, unless it gets squashed or no one pushes it forward. Even
still, Joda is the benchmark these days for a date/time API.
-bp
On Dec 16, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Martin Cooper wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
<andr...@officenet.no>wrote:
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 23:14:50 Musachy Barroso wrote:
It doesn't mean that it will convert from string to a joda object,
it
means that it will convert a string in ISO 8601 format, to a Date
object. The patch in that ticket used joda lib to create the ISO
8601,
if I don't remember wrong.
Ok, so you're saying that Struts2 (even in trunk) is unable to handle
joda-time dates out of the box? That's a pitty. In 2008, is anyone
actually
using pure java.util.Date anymore?
I was wondering the opposite - are enough people using Joda Time to
make it
worth the support / time / energy in S2? Everyone I know is, in
fact, using
java.util.Date.
--
Martin Cooper
Previously I've created container-objects to wrap joda-classes,
which works
but shouldn't be necessary. I kind of hoped that Struts-2 in its
most modern
form (trunk) included converters for the most common object-types.
I think,
for what it's worth, the ticket is missleading and that it should be
commented somewhere that Struts-2.1 will not support joda-time.
I know this sounds kind of rant-ish, but there are so many good
things
about Struts2 that missing out-of-the-box joda-support is kind of
hard to
swallow...
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Andreas Joseph Krogh <andr...@officenet.no>
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