Change string into Date?

Hi guys
I am writing a voice web application. My problem is when i speak the date it gets inserted into the textbox as a number e.g. 01012005 however when i pass this to my jsp then i get an error cause this not a valid date format.
Can you help me change the number into a date e.g. insert / to split the day month and year up? so i can insert it into my database.
Thanks

You could use java.text.SimpleDateFormat to convert Strings to Date and back.
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyy");
Date d = sdf.parse("01012005");ram.

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I m new to JDeveloper
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hi! there
i've a date in string format like MM/dd/yyyy
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and i want to convert this string format into java date format
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when i write like this
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