Date checking problem.

Hi,

I have a problem with date checking.

In my .jsp page it has a HTML form which prompts to enter date and some other fields.

When the user enter the date into the textbox, I want to check is it a valid date or

not.

I'm using MySQL with JSP 1.2 to do this task. According to the MySQL documentation, it

tells that it recognized the date format as follows.

YYYY-MM-DD
YY-MM-DD

As an example when the user enters the date as follows
2004-01-31 or 04-01-31 or 4-1-31

then the db saves as 2004-01-31.

When the user enters the date as 01-31-2004 or 01-32-2004 this saves as 0000-00-00.

Now, my problem is how can I check that the user entered the date as correct

format(year-month-day) and is it a valid date? I also want to check it for leap year.

Is there any method to do this? If you know to solve this, please tell me.

Thanks.

Take a look at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/...ateFormat.html