Dear all,

I'm getting squeezed between Struts and Hibernate when I use Date type
for a record.
My setup is the simplest possible.
This is my mappings file
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
       "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
       "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>
 <class name="com.ft.ht.DictatorForm" table="DICTATOR">

   <meta attribute="class-description">
     testing Struts with Hibernate
   </meta>

   <id name="id" type="int" column="DICTATOR_ID">
     <meta attribute="scope-set">protected</meta>
     <generator class="native"/>
   </id>

   <property name="added" column="ADDED" type="timestamp"/>
   <property name="firstName" type="java.lang.String" not-null="true"
column="FIRST_NAME"/>
   <property name="lastName" type="java.lang.String" not-null="true"
column="LAST_NAME"/>
   <property name="birthDate" column="BIRTH_DATE" type="timestamp"/>
   <property name="offsprings" type="short" column="OFFSPRINGS"/>

 </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

The timestamp type gets translated into java.util.Data in the POJO and
in datetime in the
database schema. I heve MySQL as my DB.

I use the above mapping to generate a POJO which then I modify to
extend ActionForm.
I have to modify then all the setters to accept String (instead of
java.util.Date), that's to make
Struts happy.

The trouble is that Hibernate is unhappy with the setter. When I try
to commit something with Date I get :

org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException: IllegalArgumentException
occurred while calling setter of com.ft.ht.DictatorForm.birthDate

If the setters are let to accept Date then Strings shouts at me...

So far I was experimenting only with Strings and Dates. If I go only
with String everything is working...

What am I to do then? Can somebody point me to a complete example
which uses Hibernate with Struts and
commits multiple types of data to the Database (MySQL)

Cheers,
Thomas