java.sql.Date stays to it's name and stores only dates but no times (at least with wildfly 9.0.2). See also the entry in the javadoc:
"To conform with the definition of SQL
DATE,
the millisecond values wrapped by a java.sql.Date
instance must be 'normalized' by setting the hours, minutes,
seconds, and milliseconds to zero..."While date is often enough some times you also need a time. E.g. for things like lastupdated or created. Here you have to use java.util.Date or java.util.Calendar. I've choosen java.util.Date.
When transformed to Json the java.util.Date becomes a long value which isn't very intuitive while debuging. When using Jackson (like I did with wildfly 9.0.2) there is an annotation to change this: JsonFormat. Add the following dependency to your pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
Then add the following annotation above your date fields:
@JsonFormat(shape=JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern="yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSX")
private Date done;
The pattern you see above wasn't my first one. I've used it after I've created a date in JavaScript and my Backend refused to accept it. When creating a date the JavaScript console in Firefox I get:
new Date()
Date 2016-06-14T19:51:53.317Z