ActionForm data type X BeanUtils -> using Dates

[Leandro Melo <lt...@yahoo.com.br>]

Hi,
i believe that a lot of developers use BeanUtils to
copy the data from ActionForms to the specific DTOs.
I've used this approach, but right now i'm facing a
problem, not a big one.

I've allways been confused about working with dates in
Java. I got a jsp where the user must input a date in
the following format.

Date: dd/mm/yyyy  

That's how we use dates in Brazil: the day, month and
year.

I'd like to make a validation if the user input the
date in the correct manner in the ActionForm (i'm
using traditional validation and the user input comes
in a String). So, keeping in mind the variou ways of
doing this date validation (even the deprecated ones),
how should a do the date validation???? Which one is
the best way??? I just want to check if the user input
a day with 2 digits,  a slash, a month with 2 digits,
a slash and a year with 4 digits.

Also, after that i'd like to copy this form data to my
DTO with BeanUtils. Which type should i use in my DTO 
for this date??? 

Thanks,
Leandro.




	
	
		
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