Trying to Format Date object to what I want should I be using a Date or Cal

Question

I am trying to get a simple date to be written into the body of a webpage I what to format the date but there's is now distinct way to do this
can you help me?

Answer 1

Check this out.........
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class DateFormatTest
public static void main( String[] cmdArgs )
throws Exception
SimpleDateFormat sdfInput =
new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MM-dd" );
SimpleDateFormat sdfOutput =
new SimpleDateFormat ( "dd-MMM-yyyy" );
String textDate = "2001-01-04";
Date date = sdfInput.parse( textDate );
System.out.println( sdfOutput.format( date ) );
} // main
} // class DateFormatTest
Enjoy ;-)