Custom mappings between classes and fields can be defined here, including
referencing Spring custom converters can be defined in the placeholder config dozer-mappings.xml.
Currently there is just a custom converter for Joda DateTime registered in
dozer-joda-mappings.xml.
dozer/dozer-joda-mappings.xml in Spring by Example REST Module
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mappings xmlns="http://dozer.sourceforge.net"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://dozer.sourceforge.net
http://dozer.sourceforge.net/schema/beanmapping.xsd">
<configuration>
<custom-converters>
<converter type="org.springbyexample.converter.DateTimeConverter">
<class-a>org.joda.time.DateTime</class-a>
<class-b>org.joda.time.DateTime</class-b>
</converter>
</custom-converters>
</configuration>
</mappings>