[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (EJB-311) @Temporal annotations is not mandatory

@Temporal annotations is not mandatory -------------------------------------- Key: EJB-311 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/EJB-311 Project: Hibernate Entity Manager Issue Type: Bug Components: EntityManager Affects Versions: 3.3.1.GA Environment: hibernate-entitymanager-3.3.1.GA hibernate-3.2 hibernate-annotations-3.3.0.GA Reporter: Rubem Azenha Priority: Minor According to the JPA spec (section 9.1.20): "The Temporal annotation *must* be specified for persistent fields or properties of type java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar." But the Hibernate Entity manager allows attributes without the @Temporal annotation. According to the specs, it should be mandatory the use of the @Temporary annotation in java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar fields. The Oracle TopLink Essentials - 2.0 (Build b41-beta2 (03/30/2007) JPA implementation throws a ValidationException in that cases.