The Best Global Setting for handle Mapping From Json to Joda DateTime In Spring MVC ?

[Alessandro Scuderetti]

- Spring: 3.2.5.Release

Spring MVC: Global Settings for JSON<=>DateTime(Joda) with Jackson

- Jackson 2.3.0 =>

<!-- Jackson - JSON -->

<com.fasterxml.jackson-version>2.3.0</com.fasterxml.jackson-version> 

     <dependency>

<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>

<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>

<version>${com.fasterxml.jackson-version}</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>

<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>

<version>${com.fasterxml.jackson-version}</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>

<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>

<version>${com.fasterxml.jackson-version}</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>

<artifactId>jackson-datatype-joda</artifactId>

<version>${com.fasterxml.jackson-version}</version>

</dependency>

- Joda 2.3 =>

<!--Joda-Time -->

<org.joda-time-version>2.3</org.joda-time-version>

<dependency>

<groupId>joda-time</groupId>

<artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>

<version>${org.joda-time-version}</version>

</dependency>

I used this global Spring MVC global settings:

<!--Jackson - objectMapper format date setting -->

<beans:bean id="objectMapper"

class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean"

p:indentOutput="true" p:simpleDateFormat="yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ">

</beans:bean>

        

        <!--Jackson - registerModule JodaModule -->

<beans:bean

class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean"

p:targetObject-ref="objectMapper" p:targetMethod="registerModule">

<beans:property name="arguments">

<beans:list>

<beans:bean class="com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.joda.JodaModule" />

</beans:list>

</beans:property>

</beans:bean>

<!-- Spring MVC:  setting objectMapper in converter MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter-->

<mvc:annotation-driven>

<mvc:message-converters>

<beans:bean

class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">

<beans:property name="objectMapper" ref="objectMapper" />

</beans:bean>

</mvc:message-converters>

</mvc:annotation-driven>

This solution works.

Two questions:

1. Is there a more smart solution for manage dateTime format in global settings?

2. How set a default Timezone in this global settings?