public Object deepCopyNotNull(Object value) 
{
		return new Date( ( (java.util.Date) value ).getTime() );
}

 public Object fromStringValue(String xml) throws HibernateException 
{
		try {
			return new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT).parse(xml);
		}
		catch (ParseException pe) {
			throw new HibernateException("could not parse XML", pe);
		}
}

 public Object get(ResultSet rs,
    String name) throws SQLException 
{
	        
		return rs.getDate(name);
}

 public int getHashCode(Object x,
    EntityMode entityMode) 
{
		Calendar calendar = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
		calendar.setTime( (java.util.Date) x );
		return Hibernate.CALENDAR_DATE.getHashCode(calendar, entityMode);
}

 public String getName() 
{
 return "date";
}

 public Class getReturnedClass() 
{
		return java.util.Date.class;
}

 public boolean isEqual(Object x,
    Object y) 
{
		if (x==y) return true;
		if (x==null || y==null) return false;
		java.util.Date xdate = (java.util.Date) x;
		java.util.Date ydate = (java.util.Date) y;
		if ( xdate.getTime()==ydate.getTime() ) return true;
		Calendar calendar1 = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
		Calendar calendar2 = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
		calendar1.setTime( xdate );
		calendar2.setTime( ydate );
		return Hibernate.CALENDAR_DATE.isEqual(calendar1, calendar2);
}

 public String objectToSQLString(Object value,
    Dialect dialect) throws Exception 
{
		return '\'" + new Date( ( (java.util.Date) value ).getTime() ).toString() + '\'";
}

 public  void set(PreparedStatement st,
    Object value,
    int index) throws SQLException 
{
		Date sqlDate;
		if ( value instanceof Date) {
			sqlDate = (Date) value;
		}
		else {
			sqlDate = new Date( ( (java.util.Date) value ).getTime() );
		}
		st.setDate(index, sqlDate);
}

 public int sqlType() 
{
		return Types.DATE;
}

 public Object stringToObject(String xml) throws Exception 
{
		return DateFormat.getDateInstance().parse(xml);
}

 public String toString(Object val) 
{
		return new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT).format( (java.util.Date) val );
}