Converting Date Object

Question

plz help me,
I want Date in simple format as dd/mm/yyyy.
I am retrieving date from database (oracle) and now i want to convert that date to simple "dd/mm/yyyy"
e.g : date_from_oracle=Wed Feb 01 09:10:59 GMT+05:30 1950
converted_date=1/2/1950 (and this should be date object and not String)
System.out.println("converted date:" + converted_date);
above line should print : converted date:1/2/1950
if u r clear with my question then plz help me
Thanks

Answer 1

No my problem is that i am developping J2EE
application where i am getting date values in EJB
that i want to display on JSP page.
For this i am using struts and passing collection of
data values to it.That shouldn't make the solution any different.
My oracle date format is 01-Jan-2005 (dd/mmm/yyyy).
In my ejb there is one attribute named "date_display"
of type Date. In Struts Action i retrieved collection
of all dates from database that i want to display on
JSP page as it is without any parsing. Then you should not bother about the format.
If i iterate above collection in JSP page it displays
date along with GMT and Time format. I dont want
this. I want to set "date_display" in such a way that
it should contain date values but in simple format as
"1-Jan-2005 OR 1/1/2005". Important thing is that the
Setter Method for date_display accepts parameter of
Date type. So even SimpleDateFormat also not useful.If it is not useful, write your own method. <_<
please help me out as i am stuck there.
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(new Date()));