Spring MVC Date format validation with JSR303

Question

I\'m using Spring MVC with JSR303 to do my input validation.

A form I\'ve created has a couple of date fields that are bound to Date objects within the

Answer 1

You can not do this with JSR303, because the validation runs on the already poplulated (form baching) object.

So you need to implement your own custom converter, that is a bit more strickt than the one shipped with spring.

@See Spring Reference: Chapter 6.5 Spring 3 Type Conversion