incorporating feedback from Stef

[gavinking]

If Thing that declares query methods is a non-@Entity class, inherit it in Thing_ so that its concrete methods are invokable via Thing_.

(Also fix use of java.text.SimpleDateFormat and java.util.Date.)

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[gavinking]

This is not really working out. On ice for now.