Hi John, Jacopo and Chris, Perhaps before embedding the whole Apache's validator we may simply add the below method as suggested John ?
If later we need more validations or other stuffes we migh include Apache's tools (validator, math, etc.) Jacques ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 7:14 PM Subject: Re: Date Comparison Function > The problem with that is that comparing datetime means that 10/06/2006 > 12:00:01 != 10/06/2006 18:30:00. I just want to see if a Date is the > same, before, or after another. The time messes up the tests. > > I think using the commons/validator is the right thing to do since the > less code we write, the less we have to maintain. On the otherhand, > my method is short and sweet. > > /** > * compares two dates (excluding time) to determine if date A is > equal, before or after date B > * @param dateA a java.util.Date object > * @param dateB a java.util.Date object > * @return int a value of zero (0) indicates the dates are > equal; a value less than zero (< 0) date A is prior to B; and a > * value greater than zero (> 0) indicates date A > occurs after B > */ > public static int compareDates(java.util.Date dateA, java.util.Date > dateB) { > String strDateA = UtilDateTime.toDateString(dateA, "yyyyMMdd"); > String strDateB = UtilDateTime.toDateString(dateB, "yyyyMMdd"); > return strDateA.compareTo(strDateB); > }
