The current Java.net poll question is, " How critical is it for JSR-310 (new Date and Time API) to be implemented in Java 8? " At the time of my writing of this post, nearly 150 respondents have ...

Java 8’s Date and Time API was highly anticipated, and many developers wanted to use these new classes as entity attributes. Unfortunately, JPA 2.1 was released before Java 8 and so didn’t ...