<field-validator type="regex"> > > (((((((0[13578])|(1[02]))[\/]((0[1-9])|([12]\d)|(3[01])))|(((0[469])|(11))[\/]?((0[1-9])|([12]\d)|(30)))|((0?2)[\/]((0[1-9])|(1\d)|(2[0-8]))))[\/](((19)|([1-9][0-9]))([\d][\d]))))|((0?2)[\/](29)[\/](((19)|([1-9][0-9]))(([02468][048])|([13579][26])))))$ > </field-validator> > > > IMHO this is unreadable and unmaintainable and should never be used (even if it does work).
You would be better off changing your 'date' property to be a String and handle validation in a validate() method using a DateFormat object.
