Conversion from a string to date type

Question

I am trying for a servlet application , for which the requirement is as under :
from a html form through a input type text field , a date in string format , say 12/25/01 , is picked up.
this date is received in the servlet code , and is required to be updated in Microsoft Access Database Table under a field of data type "Date/Time"
here the problem is , the date's existing data type is String and the Access' field's Data type is Date/Time , therefore, it needs to be suitably converted to a date format before it is put into a sql statement .
please help , if any functionality is available for a conversion .
thanx and regards

Answer 1

yes stephen , taking a tip from you and another from a post from this forum yesterday on SQL Exception , i shifted my focus to java.sql.Date ,
now modifying my code as under works with perfect perfection ,
thanks stephen and joe schell for all the help
kapil
import java.text.*;
import java.sql.Date;
import java.sql.*;
class HardTrial{
     public static void main(String args[]){
          Connection con = null;
          Statement stmt = null;
          ResultSet rs = null;
          Date d = new Date(123456789);// initialising with some value
          Date d1 = d.valueOf("1994-12-12");
          try{
          Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
          con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:STUDENT_DSN");
          stmt= con.createStatement();
     PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO NewTab VALUES (?,?)");
     ps.setDate(1, d1);
ps.setString(2, "TESTING");
ps.executeUpdate();
     rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT WHEN,WHAT FROM NewTab");
     while (rs.next()){
     System.out.println(rs.getString("WHEN")+ rs.getString("WHAT"));
     }catch(Exception e){
          System.out.println(e);