Combining java.util.Dates to create a date-time

Question

I have current have two UI components used to specify a date and a time. Both components return java.util.Date instances representing the calendar date and tim

Answer 1

public Date dateTime(Date date, Date time) {
    return new Date(
                     date.getYear(), date.getMonth(), date.getDay(), 
                     time.getHours(), time.getMinutes(), time.getSeconds()
                   );
}

you can corvert this deprecated code to Calendar obtaining your solution.

Then my answer is: no, you cannot do better without using joda

NB

jodatime soon will be standardized with JSR 310