Handling Dates with Hibernate You can make use of a combination of Java's date formatting class and Hibernate annotations. Sample output: Student [id=50, firstName=Paul, lastName=Doe, email=paul@luv2code.com, dateOfBirth=null] Student [id=51, firstName=Daffy, lastName=Duck, email=daffy@luv2code.com, dateOfBirth=null] Student [id=52, firstName=Paul, lastName=Doe, email=paul@luv.com, dateOfBirth=31/12/1998] Development Process Overview 1. Alter database table for student 2. Add a date utils class for parsing and formatting dates 3. Add date field to Student class 4. Add toString method to Student class 5. Update CreateStudentDemo ---- Detailed steps 1. Alter database table for student We need to alter the database table to add a new column for "date_of_birth". Run the following SQL in your MySQL Workbench tool. ALTER TABLE `hb_student_tracker` . `student` ADD COLUMN `date_of_birth` DATETIME NULL AFTER `last_name` ; -- 2....