Joda-Time provides a complete quality alternative to the JDK date and time classes. At some point however, many projects need to persist these classes to a database. One popular tool for achieving this is Hibernate.
To ease the integration of Joda-Time and Hibernate, this sub-project was setup. It aims to provide the classes necessary to persist Joda-Time objects.
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