Setting and updating Date field in a jsp form

Question

Hi:
I have a form (in jsp) where in I have a field for Date. The Date is entered in the form: 12/18/2002. I using beans to retrieve the form values and then pass to the program. THe date field is passed as String to the bean. The program changes the String to util date
(assignment ===> name of bean)
String strDate = assignment.getDueDate();
java.util.Date adate = null;
DateFormat fmt = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT,Locale.US);
try {  
adate = fmt.parse(strDate);
System.out.println("Util date in Bo: "+adate);
     catch (ParseException e)
          System.out.println(e);
and before inserting into database, it is changed from util.date to sql.date.
long time = adate.getTime();
java.sql.Date sqldate = new java.sql.Date(time);
Until now everythign is working fine. On my way back, when i retrieve the sql.date from the database, I change it to util date:
java.sql.Date sqlDate = rs.getDate("dueDate");
java.util.Date uDate = sqlDate;
and then covert this util date to String
String strDate = uDate.toString();
When I display this string date on my form... it is in the format
2002-12-18, although i have inserted it in 12/18/2002 format.
Can anyone help me since i want my date to appear on the form in the format I enter (12/18/2002) and not the 2002-12-18 format of database

Answer 1

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