I guess that you are using Jackson for json serialization, Jackson now has a module for Java 8 new date time API, https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-datatype-jsr310.
Add this dependency into your pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
<version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>
And this is its usage:
public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonProcessingException {
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
objectMapper.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
System.out.println(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(new Entity()));
}
static class Entity {
ZonedDateTime time = ZonedDateTime.now();
@JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ")
public ZonedDateTime getTime() {
return time;
}
}
The output is:
{"time":"2015-07-25T23:09:01.795+0700"}
Note : If your Jackson version is 2.4.x use
objectMapper.registerModule(new JSR310Module());
Hope this helps!