public class DateFormatterAdapter
extends XmlAdapter<String,Date>

A JAXB Adapter to convert Date to ISO8601 date time strings when generating XML and JSON. This adapter also converts ISO8601 date time strings into Date classes when converting from XML or JSON to a Java Object. ISO8601 date time strings has the format of the following example: 2012-01-09T21:39:17-05:00.