Recently I did a short presentation on Joda Time. Yesterday, on our yearly ODTUG preview, I was surpised that Joda Time is not known very well by ADF developers. To convince you of the power of this library I will give you a few examples of how and why I use it. It’s up to you if, after reading this post, you are going to use it in the future as well.

Lets start by asking a simple question. If you use the JDK date API what would you do to create a Date object with the value 18 februari 2009 ? (more…)