Dates in Java

[Ryan]

I have a simple question about the Date object (or similar object)   I have a mySQL table with a DATETIME cell. I want to get the date from this cell   (formatted like so: e.g.  2001-03-23 13:04:59)    and retrieve the date that is exactly 7 days earlier than the retrieved date.   What is the easiest way to do this? I noticed a lot of method deprecations in the specs and I am having trouble using the Date object. ----- For example, DateTest.java:20: cannot resolve symbol symbol  : constructor Date  () location: class java.sql.Date                 Date d = new Date();                          ^ 1 error -----   thanx -ryan