This post could be simply read as a revisitation of the one in which I explained How To format dates in Json within Spring 3. But since the problem to solve is different, I think it could be useful to write a new guide about it, even if the mechanics are quite the same.

Coding in Spring 3 with JPA and Jackson is supposed to semplify your life, sparing you from writing thousand lines of code. Sometimes, though, you'll notice that all these annotations hide the real core of your application, preventing you to really understand what your code is doing (and what it is supposed to do). This means that if you want to develop a good java application or website, you need to carefully read the docs or (more realistically) you need to understand how to read your error logs and combine them with a well-written search engine query. This is what I had to do when I first met the problem I'm about to write about.

After I managed to fix the Datatables jQuery plugin, finally squeezing my Movie class into the awesome table I prepared in my jsp, I found out that the dates in the columns were absolutely unintelligible: they were not properly formatted, and so they were showing up as a Long useless number.

Your new site finally needs the last thouch. You’re wasting your time walking back and forth in your room trying to think about what to do to improve it: suddenly, you remember that time when you first saw a customized landing page for that (otherwise) annoying 403 error.

When I finally bought my new Dell Inspiron laptop, I decided to take a look at the brand new Windows 8 OEM installation which I (forcedly) paid for. About 20 seconds later, I was installing the latest Ubuntu distribution. I didn’t know what I would have found, but I was happy as well. One of the main problems I faced has been that of the incredibly loud fan noise which came from my new laptop, so I began my online quest until I found i8kutils, a (partial) solution to my problem.

Sublime Text 2 (the 3rd release is about to come) is one of the smarter and most elegant editors on the scene nowadays. It comes with a lot of interesting functions, and it can easily be enriched with plugins using its awesome Package Control function.