To get first date and end date after entering any month and year

Question

Hi,
I need to to get first date and end date of a month and year in yyyyMMdd format. I am reading month and year from a properties file. But I don't know how to get the first date and End date in given format. The properties file gives me just text. But I don't know how to get the date format using this. I need this urgently. Can anyone help me to get code for this?
I am reading the fields as,
Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(new FileInputStream("AnyMonthVolume.properties"));
String date_month = props.getProperty("date_month");
String date_year = props.getProperty("date_year");
Thanks.

Answer 1

I know this has been posted a while ago but incase someone looking for it, here is the code to get the end of current month date.
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
     cal.setTime(new java.util.Date());
     cal.set(Calendar.DATE, 1); //set the date to start of month
     cal.add(Calendar.MONTH,1);
     cal.add(Calendar.DATE,-1);
System.out.println(cal.getTime());