/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2013, Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates or third-party contributors as
 * indicated by the @author tags or express copyright attribution
 * statements applied by the authors.  All third-party contributions are
 * distributed under license by Red Hat, Inc.
 *
 * This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
 * copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
 * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * along with this distribution; if not, write to:
 * Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
 * Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
 */
package org.hibernate.annotations;

import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;

import org.hibernate.tuple.CreationTimestampGeneration;

Marks a property as the creation timestamp of the containing entity. The property value will be set to the current
VM date exactly once when saving the owning entity for the first time.

Supported property types:

Date
Calendar
Date
Time
Timestamp

Author:
Gunnar Morling/**
 * Marks a property as the creation timestamp of the containing entity. The property value will be set to the current
 * VM date exactly once when saving the owning entity for the first time.
 * <p>
 * Supported property types:
 * <ul>
 * <li>{@link java.util.Date}</li>
 * <li>{@link java.util.Calendar}</li>
 * <li>{@link java.sql.Date}</li>
 * <li>{@link java.sql.Time}</li>
 * <li>{@link java.sql.Timestamp}</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @author Gunnar Morling
 */
@ValueGenerationType(generatedBy = CreationTimestampGeneration.class)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface CreationTimestamp {
}