How to validate the date in my class

Question

Hi
In my project with jsp and struts I need to validate the date field.
So in the action class I want to validate the date that is the date is in dd/mm/year format?
can anybody please give some idea to do this?
Thank you so much.

Answer 1

Here is a method that validates day/month/year using the Calendar class.
     public boolean validateDate(int day, int month, int year) {
          try {
               Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
               cal.clear();
               cal.setLenient(false);
               cal.set(year, month-1, day);
               // need to call getTime() to make the calendar compute/validate the date
               cal.getTime();
               return true;
          catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {               
               return false;
     }