I have a column in a table with datatype Date.
And in the mapping file, i mentioned the type="timestamp"

The associated POJO for my table generates the column with Date.

Its setter() is accepting only Date as a parameter.

But when i persist, i am able to save only Date and i am unable to save the time along with date.

can anybody suggest me on this how to proceed.

Change the column type to java.sql.Timestamp and keep the hibernate mapping as 'timestamp'. It will return date+time.

I have mapped the following two columns with Date and TimeStamp type to hibernate type 'timestamp'

private Date myDate; (java.util.Date)
private TimeStamp yourDate; (java.sql.Timestamp)

My database is Oracle. In my tables, I can see that both date and time are stored. When query for myDate and yourDate, only Date is returned.

myDate returns date only.
yourDate returns date+time.

But when you issue a SQL in database with to_char(myDate, 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss') it returns date+time. But the java type java.util.Date is returning date only.

Here is what Hibernate docs says: