There are many ways you can do it:

One way is using Apache BeanUtils with Converters registered to it. This way
automatic conversions can happen
Again it depends on what date you want to convert- current date, arbitrary
date.

You can just go ahead and use SimpleDateFormat's format/parse methods.

On 6/23/06, Daoud Abdelmonem Faleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I use this utility class:

package com.itCom.util;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

/**
*
* @author Dao
*/
public class SQLDateConvertor {

    /** Creates a new instance of SQLDateConvertor */
    public SQLDateConvertor() {
    }
    public static String convertDateFormat(java.sql.Date date, String
format)

    {
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(format);

       try {
           return df.format(date);
       } catch (Exception exp) {
           return null;
       }

    }
    public static java.sql.Date convertToSqlDateFormat(String
value,String format) {

       DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(format);

       try {

           Date date = df.parse(value);
           return new java.sql.Date(date.getTime());

       } catch (Exception exp) {
           return null;
       }
   }
}

On 6/23/06, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Commons Validator 1.3.0 has a whole set of easy to use
> validation/conversion routines:
>
>   http://tinyurl.com/g526k
>
>   DateValidator validator = DateValidator.getInstance();
>   java.util.Date utilDate= validator.validate("06-apr-07", "dd-MMM-yy");
>   java.sql.Date sqlDate = new java.sql.Date(utilDate.getTime());
>
> Niall
>
> On 6/22/06, Chris Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > try {
> >    java.sql.Date d = new java.sql.Date(new
> > SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy").parse("06-apr-07").getTime());
> > }
> > catch (ParseException ex) {
> > }
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On 6/22/06, temp temp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have a string which I want to convert into a date .
> > >   The string   06-APR-07
> > >
> > >   How can I convert this date into sql date ?
> > >
> > >   Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
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