Converting Java.util date to XML date in format YYYY-MMM-dd

Question

I'm using below code to convert java.util.date to XML date
public static XMLGregorianCalendar toXMLDate(Date dte) {
   try {
   // this may throw DatatypeConfigurationException
   DatatypeFactory datatypeFactory = DatatypeFactory.newInstance();
   GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
   // reset all fields
  calendar.clear();
   Calendar parsedCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
  parsedCalendar.setTime(dte);
  calendar.set( parsedCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR ),
  parsedCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH),
  parsedCalendar.get(Calendar.DATE ));
   XMLGregorianCalendar xmlCalendar = datatypeFactory.newXMLGregorianCalendar( calendar );
  xmlCalendar.setTimezone( DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED );
  xmlCalendar.setFractionalSecond( null );
   return xmlCalendar;
I need to get the date in the format YYYY-MMM-dd, but it returns in a format YYYY-MM-dd. Can anyone tell me how can i change the format? Thanks

Answer 1

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The snippet of ApplicationClient where the assignment took place and the syntax occurred were:
1. DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
2. DateFormat timeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
3. Date date = new Date();
4. CustomerDetail customerDetail = new CustomerDetail();
5. customerDetail.setCollectionDate(dateFormat.format(date)); //got the above syntax error
6. customerDetail.setCollectionTime(timeFormat.format(date)); //got the above syntax error
.....I am running JDK 1.6.0_10, Glassfish v2r2, MySQL 5.0, Netbeans 6.1 on Windows XP platform.The format method returns a String not a Date. Why not just store the Date as is without formatting, and format it when you want to retrieve it from the DB and display it?
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