inserting a date in MS Access

hi freinds
i am doing this servlet program where i have to insert dates into a data base...i accept the date as a string ...convert into Date object ...but when i try toinsert into the data base ...its giving me an error saying Syntax error (operator missing)..
I have converted the string into date object using SimpleDateFormat class...and its parse mtd
pls help

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anu

When creating the date object for the insert try using java.sql.Date instead of java.util.Date