# Apache Tamaya — Extension: JodaTime

## Tamaya JodaTime (Extension Module)

### Overview

Tamaya JodaTime is an extension module to support the usage of Joda-Time in conjunction with Tamaya. Tamaya JodaTime defines some additional property converters to retrieve Joda-Time types from a given configuration.

Refer to the extensions documentation for further details about modules.

tools to locate resources in your classpath or file system based on descriptive ant-styled resource patterns. To use this module add the following dependency:

    <dependency>
      <grooupId>org.apache.tamaya.ext</groupId>
      <artifactId>tamaya-jodatime</artifactId>
      <version>{tamayaVersion}</version>
    </dependency>

After adding this dependency to your project you can retrieve Joda-Time based values directly from a given configuration.

    Configuration configuration = ConfigurationProvider.getConfiguration();

    DateTime pit = configuration.get("pointInTime", DateTime.class)

### Specifying date and time values

To be written.

### Specifing periods and durations

To be written.