RE: free-format move *USA date value to 6-digit numeric in YMDformat

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>If all this java, java, java,  write-once run anywhere crap is true
(which
I do not believe in by the way) 

It works, I've done it :-)

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Try this one: Write a program to overrides bad SSL certificate handling
(all the packages to do this are in JDK 1.4.2 and sun even provides
sample code to do it) and get it running as a standalone program or
inside of Tomcat. Try it from within WebLogic and then tell me about
write once, run anywhere. To make a long, frustrating story short, it
doesn't work because WebLogic overrides the standard API's (and the ones
it uses are marked as depreciated) so they return WebLogic specific
objects (also marked as depreciated). I know we've run into problems
with different JDK's that don't work correctly (I think IBM's JDK 1.2
was more compliant than Sun's JDK 1.2, at least for a period of time).

Matt