Creating java date object from year,month,day

Question

int day = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter(\"day\"));  // 25
int month = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter(\"month\")); // 12
int year = Integer.parseInt(re         


        

Answer 1

Java's Calendar representation is not the best, they are working on it for Java 8. I would advise you to use Joda Time or another similar library.

Here is a quick example using LocalDate from the Joda Time library:

LocalDate localDate = new LocalDate(year, month, day);
Date date = localDate.toDate();

Here you can follow a quick start tutorial.