JDK 1.4.2, Hibernate 3.0.5.

I know this has probably been rehashed many times, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I have a column defined as an Oracle TIMESTAMP. When I view it in my SQL browser (SQuirreL), the value looks ok ("2006-12-24 20:54:30.0", for instance).

I defined the column in my HBM file like:

<property name="modTime" column="MOD_TIME" type="timestamp"/>

In the bound class, I defined the field as a "java.util.Date" field. When I print the value of the field, it appears to be something like "2006-09-29 17:32:29.0". Is it supposed to be bound to a Calendar object instead?

You should use "calendar".

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I've seen this page many times, and the way I read it, if you are using SQL type TIMESTAMP, you can map it to either java.util.Date or java.util.Calendar. I was using Date.

In any case, since my db types are constrained, but I could easily change the class it maps to, and the class is in a "db mapping layer", I simply mapped it to java.sql.Timestamp, which ended up working fine.

On the other hand, along the way I also discovered a coding issue I had in how I was referencing the mapped objects, which I fixed. It's possible I could go back to java.util.Date with no problem.

> It's possible I could go back to java.util.Date with no problem

because java.util.Date is parent of Timestamp.