Joda-Time 1.3 released

Joda-Time provides a Java library for date and time handling including the ISO8601 standard. It completely replaces the JDK Date and Calendar classes, while still providing good integration. It is open-source software under the ASF2 license.

Version 1.3 has just been released. This release fixes a number of minor bugs in v1.2 but also adds some significant new features:

• LocalDate/LocalTime/LocalDateTime
  Replacements for YearMonthDay and TimeOfDay which have a much better internal implementation and better external semantics

• withXxx() methods
  These have been added to all immutable datetime classes and perform a similar function to set methods, simplifying your code

Homepage: http://joda-time.sourceforge.net
Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=436616&group_id=97367
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=97367&package_id=104212

Hibernate and JSP integration are available from linked websites

Major features of Joda-Time

• Easy to Use - Calendar makes accessing 'normal' dates difficult, due to the lack of simple methods. Joda-Time has straightforward field accessors. And the index of January is 1!

• Extensible - Joda-Time supports multiple calendar systems via a plugin mechanism, which is much more extensible than the subclasses of Calendar. Currently supported calendars are ISO8601, GregorianJulian, Buddhist (Thai) Coptic, Ethiopic and Islamic.

• Comprehensive - Joda-Time includes classes for datetimes, dates without times, times without dates, intervals and time periods.

• Advanced formatting - An advanced and extensible formatting mechanism is included, allowing input and output to string in a thread-safe manner.

• Well documented. There is documentation in the form of a quick and full user guide, plus reference pages, FAQs and javadoc.

• Tested. There is good test coverage, see the website, providing an assurance of quality.

Feedback

As always, feedback is welcomed - whether bugs or reviews, good or bad! Only with input from the community can the library improve.

Joda-Time team
http://joda-time.sourceforge.net