I just started using Hibernate 3.0. I'm waiting for Amazon to deliver Hibernate in Action but in the mean time I have a small issue.

I'm pointing my prototype application to an AS400/DB2 database which formats dates as Julians. I got Hibernate working by putting the following in my hbm.xml:
<property name="cancelDate" column="CANCELDATE" type="integer" generated="never" insert="false" update="false"/>

In my POJO I have a basic getter/setter of type Integer.
/**
* @return Returns the cancelDate.
*/
public Integer getCancelDate() {
return cancelDate;
}
/**
* @param cancelDate The cancelDate to set.
*/
public void setCancelDate(Integer cancelDate) {
this.cancelDate = cancelDate;
}

My question is does Hibernate automatically map Julian dates to standard Java Date objects? I'd like to simply set my type in the mapping file to date and change the POJO getter/setter to Date (instead of Integer).

Not sure, but
think about it in terms of JDBC and your database.
if you created a java-jdbc test routine that opened up a ResultSet
and you called
rs.getDate("JDT");
and you JDT col was a number would it convert to java.sql.Date?
so, I think Julian date is milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT ..right? if so, then it should work - since java.sql.Date has a constructor w/ milliseconds as argument.