initial joda time support courtesy of Oliver Gierke

org.springframework.context/.classpath

@@ -36,5 +36,6 @@
 	<classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/org.springframework.expression"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/org.springframework.asm/target/artifacts/org.springframework.asm.jar" sourcepath="/org.springframework.asm/target/artifacts/org.springframework.asm-sources.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="var" path="IVY_CACHE/org.hibernate/com.springsource.org.hibernate.validator/4.0.0.Beta2/com.springsource.org.hibernate.validator-4.0.0.Beta2.jar"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="var" path="IVY_CACHE/org.joda/com.springsource.org.joda.time/1.6.0/com.springsource.org.joda.time-1.6.0.jar" sourcepath="/IVY_CACHE/org.joda/com.springsource.org.joda.time/1.6.0/com.springsource.org.joda.time-sources-1.6.0.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
 </classpath>

org.springframework.context/ivy.xml

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 		<dependency org="org.aspectj" name="com.springsource.org.aspectj.weaver" rev="1.6.5.RELEASE" conf="optional, aspectj->compile"/>
 		<dependency org="org.beanshell" name="com.springsource.bsh" rev="2.0.0.b4" conf="optional, beanshell->compile"/>
 		<dependency org="org.codehaus.groovy" name="com.springsource.org.codehaus.groovy" rev="1.6.3" conf="optional, groovy->compile"/>
+		<dependency org="org.joda" name="com.springsource.org.joda.time" rev="1.6.0" />	
 		<dependency org="org.jruby" name="com.springsource.org.jruby" rev="1.2.0" conf="optional, jruby->compile"/>
 		<dependency org="org.springframework" name="org.springframework.asm" rev="latest.integration" conf="compile->compile"/>
 		<dependency org="org.springframework" name="org.springframework.aop" rev="latest.integration" conf="compile->compile"/>

org.springframework.context/src/main/java/org/springframework/ui/format/jodatime/DateTimeFormatter.java

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2009 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.springframework.ui.format.jodatime;
+
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+import org.joda.time.DateTime;
+import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
+import org.springframework.ui.format.Formatter;
+
+/**
+ * {@link Formatter} implementation to handle JodaTime {@link DateTime} instances.
+ * @author Oliver Gierke
+ */
+public class DateTimeFormatter implements Formatter<DateTime> {
+
+	private org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter formatter;
+
+	/**
+	 * Creates a new {@link DateTimeFormatter} for the given JodaTime formatting pattern.
+	 * @param pattern
+	 * @see DateTimeFormat
+	 */
+	public DateTimeFormatter(String pattern) {
+		this.formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(pattern);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Creates a new {@link DateTimeFormatter} for the given JodaTime formatter.
+	 */
+	public DateTimeFormatter(org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter formatter) {
+		this.formatter = formatter;
+	}
+
+	public String format(DateTime object, Locale locale) {
+		return null == object ? "" : object.toString(formatter);
+	}
+
+	public DateTime parse(String formatted, Locale locale) throws ParseException {
+		return formatter.withLocale(locale).parseDateTime(formatted);
+	}
+}

org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/ui/format/jodatime/DateTimeFormatterTests.java

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2009 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.ui.format.jodatime;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+import org.joda.time.DateTime;
+import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * @author Keith Donald
+ */
+public class DateTimeFormatterTests {
+
+	private DateTimeFormatter formatter = new DateTimeFormatter("yyyy-MM-dd");
+	
+	@Test
+	public void formatValue() {
+		DateTime dateTime = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd").parseDateTime("2009-06-01");
+		assertEquals("2009-06-01", formatter.format(dateTime, Locale.US));
+	}
+	
+	@Test
+	public void parseValue() throws ParseException {
+		DateTime dateTime = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd").parseDateTime("2009-06-01");
+		assertEquals(dateTime, formatter.parse("2009-06-01", Locale.US));
+	}
+
+}

org.springframework.context/template.mf

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Import-Template:
  org.apache.commons.logging.*;version="[1.1.1, 2.0.0)",
  org.aspectj.weaver.*;version="[1.5.4, 2.0.0)";resolution:=optional,
  org.codehaus.groovy.*;version="[1.5.0, 2.0.0)";resolution:=optional,
+ org.joda.*;version="[1.6.0, 2.0.0)";resolution:=optional,
  org.jruby.*;version="[1.1.0, 2.0.0)";resolution:=optional,
  org.omg.CORBA.*;version="0";resolution:=optional,
  org.springframework.aop.*;version="[3.0.0, 3.0.1)";resolution:=optional,

spring-framework-reference/src/validation.xml

@@ -962,6 +962,7 @@ public interface Formatter<T> {
 				Several Formatter implementations are provided in subpackages of <filename>ui.format</filename> as a convenience.
 				The <filename>date</filename> package provides a DateFormatter to format java.util.Date objects with a java.text.DateFormat.
 				The <filename>number</filename> package provides a DecimalFormatter, IntegerFormatter, CurrencyFormatter, and PercentFormatter to format java.lang.Number objects using a java.text.NumberFormat.
+				The <filename>jodatime</filename> package provides a DateTimeFormatter to format Joda DateTime objects, a popular alternative to java.util.Date/Calendar.
 			</para>
 			<para>
 				Consider <classname>DateFormatter</classname> as an example <interfacename>Formatter</interfacename> implementation:				
@@ -1000,7 +1001,6 @@ public final class DateFormatter implements Formatter<Date> {
 }]]></programlisting>
 			<para>
 				The Spring team welcomes community-driven Formatter contributions; see <ulink url="http://jira.springframework.org">http://jira.springframework.org</ulink> to contribute.
-				In particular, the team hopes to integrate support for Joda Time and Money Formatters in the future.
 			</para>
 		</section>
 		<section id="ui-format-Formatted-Annotation">