Struts - Formatting date in display:column tag

Question

Hi ,
I am using the following code to format the date in my display tag
<display:column headerClass="myclass" property="submittedDate" title="DATE SUBMITTED" decorator="org.displaytag.sample.LongDateWrapper" />     which displays the date like '12/22/2005 00:00'
I don't need this format . Instead ,I want to extend the decorator and create my own . For that , I'm using
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import org.displaytag.decorator.TableDecorator;
public class DateDecorator extends TableDecorator{
     public DateDecorator(){          
          super();
          System.out.println("Date decorator constructor called...");
     public String getSubmittedDate(Object obj){
          SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat();
          sdf.applyPattern("MM/dd/yyyy");
          System.out.println("In getSubmittedDate()...");
          String date = sdf.format(obj);
          System.out.println("Formatted date is ::"+date);
          return date;
but at runtime it gives me the classcast exception saying that
class DateDecorator could not be loaded .
Kindly guide me through it .
Thanks

Answer 1

Decorator class that you wrote is "DateDecorator" and the decorator class that you used in the tag is "LongDateWrapper".