Laurie, Thanks for all the replies.
Can you point me to a document describe how to change the default converter used by Struts? I was not aware of that. By the way, what's the disadvantage to have common beanutil to support java.util.Date as well? Thanks On 10/30/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right, I create a fresh instance of BeanUtilsBean and register the > converter at the point of use, to avoid that being a problem. > > L. > > Ryan Stewart wrote: > > Not to mention that DateFormats are not thread-safe, and I'm fairly sure > > Converter access is not synchronized. > > > > > >>----Original Message---- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Date: Oct 28, 2005 3:17:17 PM > >>To: dev@struts.apache.org > >>Subj: Re: java.util.Date in Action Form Bean > >> > >>So far I'm doing this by registering a custom implementation of > >>Converter which I instantiate with a suitable instance of > >>SimpleDateFormat before calling BeanUtilsBean.copyProperties(). > > > > [...] > > > >>That's untested code, and the implementation of convert() should incude > >>checks for value being null, not a String, etc and handling for if the > >>date can't be parsed... but it gives you the rough idea. > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Yujun Liang [EMAIL PROTECTED]