JsonDateSerializer.java

package org.genedb.crawl.json;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerator;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonProcessingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializerProvider;

public class JsonDateSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Date>{
    
    public static final String dateFormatString = "dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm:ss z";
    public static final SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormatString);

    @Override
    public void serialize(Date date, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider provider)
            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(date);
        gen.writeString(formattedDate);
    }

}