Or you could go the regex route:
String date = "10/07/2010";
String newDate = date.replaceAll("(\\d+)/(\\d+)/(\\d+)", "$3/$2/$1");
System.out.println(newDate);
It works both ways too. Of course this won't actually validate your date and will also work for strings like "21432/32423/52352". You can use "(\\d{2})/(\\d{2})/(\\d{4}" to be more exact in the number of digits in each group, but it will only work from dd/MM/yyyy to yyyy/MM/dd and not the other way around anymore (and still accepts invalid numbers in there like 45). And if you give it something invalid like "blabla" it will just return the same thing back.
