How to save only the date in hibernate?

Question

I have mapped a property with the Java.util.Date type to a table column in a MySQL database. It saves the whole date/time! How can I make hibernate to save only the Date and not the time. My mapping is:

    <property name="registrationDate" type="java.util.Date">
        <column name="regDate" length="10" />
    </property>

Answer 1

You must have specified your column as DateTime type in your table. Just make it a Date type column. So only the date portion will be stored.

EDIT:

If you are using table auto generation you can define your java.util.date as follows;

@Temporal(DATE)
protected java.util.Date endDate;

if you are using xml configuration it can be defined as follows;

<basic name="myDate"/>
<temporal>DATE</temporal>
</basic>