![]() Real life examle: We’ve recently encounter a problem in one of the projects. Separation of chronologies. The new API allows people to work with different “non-ISO-8601” calendaring systems, like one used in Japan or Thailand. ![]() Domain-driven design. The new API models its domain very precisely with classes that represent different use cases for Date and Time closely. This emphasis on domain-driven design offers long-term benefits around clarity and understandability, but you might need to think through your application’s domain model of dates when porting from previous APIs to Java SE 8.Immutable-value classes. One of the serious weaknesses of the existing formatters (like ) in Java is that they aren’t thread-safe.The new API is driven by three core ideas: The project has been led jointly by the author of Joda-Time (Stephen Colebourne) and Oracle, under JSR 310, and appeared in the new Java SE 8 package java.time. In order to address these problems and provide better support in the JDK core, a new date and time API, which is free of these problems, has been designed for Java SE 8. Read more about this topic on this blog post. It implicitly uses the system-local time zone in many places – including toString() – which confuses many developers.Date represents a DateTime, but in order to defer to those in SQL land, there’s another subclass, which represents a single day (though without a timezone associated with it).You have to always take care about that or it could lead to some unexpected behaviors. Date formatting classes are also not thread safe. All classes in this old API are mutable. As a result, any time you want to give a date back (say, as an instance structure) you need to return a clone of that date instead of the date object itself (since otherwise, people can mutate your structure).Not very intuitive and led to many off-by-one errors. Months are zero indexed (0 – January, 11 – December).There are many workarounds in the Java world around this banal design decision, like handling years before 1900. It rates years as two digits since 1900. ![]() is poorly understood by developers. It’s been badly abused by library authors, adding further to the confusion. A Date instance represents an instant in time, not a date. Many of its methods were deprecated since Java 1.1 and ported to (abstract) and. has some serious design flows, from the day it was introduced. Why we would like to do so? Well, using the new API is simpler, more straightforward, flexible, easier to understand, classes are immutable and hence thread safe… just to mention a few. But this does not mean we can not use new java.time API when writing new code or refactoring the old one. Sure, we still have to interact with legacy applications and old APIs, using mentioned classes. It represents a very rich API for working with dates and times. Yet, I see many developers still using good old and classes in the code they write today. ![]() One of those is new Date and Time API for Java, also known as JSR-310. Java 8 was released 3 years ago (March 2014) and brought a lot of language improvements. ![]()
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