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Asked: 2026-05-23T17:11:34+00:00

I’m using EclipseLink in Glassfish with my JavaEE application and have some java.util.Locale-columns in

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I’m using EclipseLink in Glassfish with my JavaEE application and have some java.util.Locale-columns in my model classes which I would like to store as String-columns in my database tables.

I know Hibernate ships it’s conversion annotations and I can build my own converter implementing org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.converters.Converter. However, I have to depend on either of those libraries to use them.

Is there a way to get this functionality without directly depending on EclipseLink or Hibernate and staying with JPA spec?

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  1. Editorial Team

    JPA doesn’t provide that feature :(… in fact, it’s feature base is very, very basic. You can achieve the same by creating a virtual attribute, so you have a String field in your class, which is mapped, and then you create a virtual attribute with a setLocale(Locale) and Locale getLocale(), which transform the string into a Locale and return it or extract the string representation of the locale.

    I know it’s not WOW, but it’s the only way to avoid using EclipseLink or Hibernate custom annotations.

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