Java Calendar Getting day

Question

I am developing a app..in which i have to find how many days are in a month and day of that particular day.
What i have done so far is following:
int year = 2003;  //actually ill be getting these data from input field. this one is just test
int month = 10;
String [] months = {"january","february","March"}; //and so on until december
int [] monthDays ={31,28,31,30...};
String [] dayOfWeek ={"Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday"}; //list is upto sunday
GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(year,month,1);
int daysInMonth = monthDays[month];
int dayOfTheWeek = calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK;
String day = dayOfWeek[dayOfTheWeek];
// im stuck from hereFrom the code above i am expecting to get the day of the first day that is 1.
So from here how do i go and assign the day to other days like 2,3,4.
I cant use the table form, so that means a placing sun, mon, etc on the
top and then placing 1,2,3 is not. I wanna place day next to the number(1,2,3)
how can i do that?
any help will be appreciated?
thanx in advance

Answer 1

The Calendar class and its associated GregorianCalendar class are extremely badly written. They waver between being pure procedural code to wrongly conceived object structure. Witness, for example, a change in one of the parameters, such as the Month, of the Calendar, and how the authors have the audacity to state: the change in such a VITAL parameter will not be reflected in the rest of the object to.... save processor time! As a result the object is simply inconsistent and as such unreliable, fullstop!
But the errors are so many and everywhere. The following code, run on December 24, 2005:
GregorianCalendar c = new GregorianCalendar()
System.out.println("Day number: " + c.get(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
It will produce:
DayNumber: 358
Unbelievable, one might say.
Such code should not be allowed to be published and SUN bears the responsibility of adopting it blindly without verifying that it is badly written and drenching with errors and misconceptions that date back to the heyday of UNIX mentality, when objects are simply wrappers of legacy procedural code, and in this case with bugs galore, to add insult to injury!
If anybody knows of a decent less ostentatious (and buggy) calendering code, please come to the rescue.
Khaled El-Bizri
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