Right format on a date, need help

Question

I get a dateparameter from my jsp. This is in format "dd.MM.yyyy". When I parse it to a date the result is e.g:
Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 GMT+01:00 2002.
How can I get this to be in the preferred format (dd.MM.yyyy)?
My code is:
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd.MM.yyyy");
ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
Date fromdate = formatter.parse(request.getParameter("fromdate"),pos);

Answer 1

I don't check it in a special way.
This is all the needed code (in a JSP page):
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd.MM.yyyy");
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("###,##0.00");
DecimalFormat dfNoDigits = new DecimalFormat("###,##0.##");
// get parameters
String customerId = request.getParameter("customerId");
Date fromdate = formatter.parse(request.getParameter("fromdate"));
Date todate = formatter.parse(request.getParameter("todate"));
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<%=from%> <input type=text name="fromdate" value="<%=fromdate%>" style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px' size=12>  
<%=to%> <input type=text name="todate" value="<%=todate%>" style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px' size=12>  
<input type="hidden" name="customerId" value="<%= customerId%>">
<input type="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px" value="Vis">     
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As you can see I create a new Date object and gives it the parsed value from request.getParameter(). This is funny enough always in the long format. This value is inserted in textboxes in the JSP.