Re: How To: String --> sql.Date and String --> java.util.Date

[Franco Biaggi <fbiaggi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You may look at java.text.SimpleDateFormat

Lim Hock-Chai wrote:

> I posted below to java101 group and got no respond.  Thought I try it here.
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> I've a jsp that contains a text input field that represent a date. This date is map to a Date field in a table. 
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> I'm using Struts to control the application flow. When user press submit, the 
> ActionForm takes over and basically call the Validate Action class and Form 
> Action that uses beancopy to copy data to a DAO class. In this DAO class, I 
> declare the date field as sql.Date.
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> Can somebody show me how should I handle the following:
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> 1) In the Validation action, I need to check the input Date field (String 
> class) to make sure that it is greater than today's date. How should I do this?
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> 2) In the bean copy or my DAO, how should I convert this String to sql.Date?
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> Thanks.
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