Validating a date using Struts

Question

Hoi all,
I am trying to validate a date in struts,
I have googled for a information and searched the forum but didn't find anything useful, I might have been asking the wrong questions.
I have set up my validate.xml and it captures a date that is like : aa/01/3000 and returns an error specifying that the date is wrong but when i type in 45/01/3000 the date is accepted as a valid date and I cannot understands why, the date validation is built in isn�t it ??
Any help will be appreciated

Answer 1

Uhmmm i don�t have it sorted.......
I have been trying to validate a specific date that info can be seen in my original post on top, This is what i have so far in my Validation.xml file
<form name="searchForm">
    <field property="startDate" depends="date">     
       <arg0 >
       <var><var-name>datePatternStrict</var-name><var-value>dd/MM/yyyy</var-value></var>                    
               </field>          
               <field property="endDate" depends="date">               
                  <var><var-name>datePatternStrict</var-name><var-value>dd/MM/yyyy</var-value></var>                    
               </field>                    
               <field property="endDate" depends="validwhenDate" >               
                    <var>
                         <var-name>test</var-name>
                         <var-value>(startEndDateCompare!= -1)</var-value>
                    </var>
               </field>               
          </form>endDate and startDate are both strings and the startEndDateCompare is a method in the searchForm.java file that compares the parsed date values of the string dates of endDate and startDate via a simple date format, If this doesn�t make sense let me know and I'll try to elaborate
now my questions is what am I doing wrong??
The validation still registers that 01/aa/3000 is an invalid date but not 45/01/3000 this is still validated as a correct date.
Thank for any help.