Another way to format dates

Question

We were trying to retrieve a date from BC4J in a desirable format. We did look at the HOWTO that was posted, but found we would have to alter every date to a custom domain object in the BC4J layer. So we made a little utility method to help in any webbean we made that returned an oracle.jbo.domain.Date object:
* Sets the default date format for the webbean display of dates.
* @author Aaron Haimovitz
* @param formatmask Format to display the dates in
* Examples<br>
* <ul>
* <li>"yyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss z" = 1976.03.09 BC at 11:21:56 PDT
* <li>"h:mm a" = 12:08 PM
* <li>"yyyy-MMM-dd" = 1976-MAR-09
* </ul>
*<div style="color:red">Default value is "dd-MMM-yyyy"</div>
public void setDateFormat(String formatmask){
this.dateformat = formatmask;
public String getFormatedDate(String date, String formatmask){
String formattedDate;
oracle.jbo.domain.Date ds = new oracle.jbo.domain.Date(date);
SimpleDateFormat dFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(formatmask);
java.util.Date newDate = (java.util.Date) ds.getData();
formattedDate = dFormat.format(newDate);
return formattedDate;

Answer 1

We were trying to retrieve a date from BC4J in a desirable format. We did look at the HOWTO that was posted, but found we would have to alter every date to a custom domain object in the BC4J layer. So we made a little utility method to help in any webbean we made that returned an oracle.jbo.domain.Date object:
* Sets the default date format for the webbean display of dates.
* @author Aaron Haimovitz
* @param formatmask Format to display the dates in
* Examples<br>
* <ul>
* <li>"yyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss z" = 1976.03.09 BC at 11:21:56 PDT
* <li>"h:mm a" = 12:08 PM
* <li>"yyyy-MMM-dd" = 1976-MAR-09
* </ul>
*<div style="color:red">Default value is "dd-MMM-yyyy"</div>
public void setDateFormat(String formatmask){
this.dateformat = formatmask;
public String getFormatedDate(String date, String formatmask){
String formattedDate;
oracle.jbo.domain.Date ds = new oracle.jbo.domain.Date(date);
SimpleDateFormat dFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(formatmask);
java.util.Date newDate = (java.util.Date) ds.getData();
formattedDate = dFormat.format(newDate);
return formattedDate;