How do I calculate someone's age in Java?

Question

I want to return an age in years as an int in a Java method. What I have now is the following where getBirthDate() returns a Date object (with the birth date ;-)):

Answer 1

This is an improved version of the one above... considering that you want age to be an 'int'. because sometimes you don't want to fill your program with a bunch of libraries.

public int getAge(Date dateOfBirth) {
    int age = 0;
    Calendar born = Calendar.getInstance();
    Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
    if(dateOfBirth!= null) {
        now.setTime(new Date());
        born.setTime(dateOfBirth);  
        if(born.after(now)) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't be born in the future");
        }
        age = now.get(Calendar.YEAR) - born.get(Calendar.YEAR);             
        if(now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) < born.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR))  {
            age-=1;
        }
    }  
    return age;
}