Using the Bukkit version of JODA

I wrote a plugin that uses JODA time and included it in the fat jar. It was working fine for most servers, but I recently found out it was causing some other plugins that rely on the Bukkit implementation of ebeans to crash, and quite frankly this is just poor programming on my part. I have two options. (1) Use maven to shade the plugin and JODA, which I have NO idea how to use, and cant find any good information on how to do this. (2) Use the bukkit implementation of JODA, which is what I would like to do, but I can not figure out how to do it.

Here is my current method.

Code:

private static int getHours(int row) throws Exception
    {
        String[] token = new String[4];
        token = clearedlist.get(row);
        String date = token[2];
        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss");
        Date now = new Date();
        String rightNow = new String(dateFormat.format(now));
       
        DateTimeFormatter format = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss");
        DateTime time1 = format.parseDateTime(date);
        DateTime time2 = format.parseDateTime(rightNow);
        Hours hoursBetween = Hours.hoursBetween(time1, time2);
       
        int hoursOut = 0;
        if (hoursBetween.getHours() <= 0)
        {
            hoursOut = 1;
        }
        else
        {
            hoursOut = hoursBetween.getHours();
        }
        return hoursOut;
    }

Can one of you brilliant developers please help me change this method to use the bukkit implementation of JODA time?