How to check a date as 'holiday' in java

Hi,
Could you please tell me, how to check a Date as holiday?
i.e
for example today's date is 03/04/2006.
How do i make a check that today is holiday (excluding/including weekend, it's your choice!

).

Thanks,
Biswajit

Java's GregorianCalendar class knows nothing about holidays, since thay are particular to a location, and subject to change. What you could do is create a static data structure containing all the dates which constitute a holiday in whichever location your application is being run (you will have to populate this manually) and check dates against it. For example you could have a HashMap for each year, keyed on Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, whose value is a Boolean denoting whether it is a holiday or not.

Originally posted by Biswajit Paria:
Hi,
Could you please tell me, how to check a Date as holiday?

You mean like Diwali?

Thanks Paul Sturrock for your nice suggestion.
In other ways, by creating a table in database with holidays list we can do the same thing.

Jeff Albertson ,
How do you want to feel..?

Thanks,
B

Originally posted by Biswajit Paria:
In other ways, by creating a table in database with holidays list we can do the same thing.

Yes, but for speed you probably want this in memory. A database round trip every time you use a date is a bit of an overhead. If your application reads your table once when it starts up and hold the data in memory you avoid this.

Originally posted by Biswajit Paria:
Jeff Albertson ,
How do you want to feel..?

Yaar, I want to feel that Java will be able to tell me when Diwali starts.

just found the perfect solution for your problem

here

jan