How to map java.time Year and Month with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how you can map the java.time.Year and java.time.Month with both JPA and Hibernate. As explained in this article, JPA 2.2 supports LocalDate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime, OffsetTime, OffsetDateTime from the java.time package. Hibernate has been supporting the Java 8 Date/Time classes since 5.0 via the hibernate-java8 dependency, but since version 5.2, this dependency was merged with hibernate-core so you get the Duration, Instant and ZonedDateTime types in addition to the ones supported by JPA 2.2. However, neither JPA nor Hibernate supports the java.time.Year type out-of-the-box…. Read More