<fmt:formatDate question.

[peter cooke]

I am using Oracle appserver from jdeveloper 10.1.3.3

My jsp has a license object with a reference to a java.util.Date object (effectiveDate) The following line of code gives me "Effective Date: Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 PST 2005"

    
<th>Effective Date:</th>
<td>${license.effectiveDate}</td>

I am trying to format the license date to display the date in "yyyy-MM-dd" format but the following all return an empty string.

<fmt:formatDate type='both' pattern='yyyy-MM-dd' var='${license.effectiveDate}' />

or

<fmt:formatDate type='both' pattern='yyyy-MM-dd' value='${license.effectiveDate}' />

or

<fmt:formatDate value='${license.effectiveDate}' pattern='yyyy-MM-dd' />

[Bear Bibeault]

Did you look at the generated HTML? Is the tag getting evaluated?

[peter cooke]

the HTML returns the following where I would expect to see "2006-01-05"

   <fmt:formatDate value='Sat Jan 05 00:00:00 PST 2006' pattern='yyyy-MM-dd' /> 

Interesting that it does not seem to be executing the tag

[Bear Bibeault]

Checking the HTML source should be a reflex when this sort of things happen.

Did you declare the fmt library on the page? Guessing not.

[peter cooke]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Checking the HTML source should be a reflex when this sort of things happen.

Did you declare the fmt library on the page? Guessing not.

Lesson Learned. Thanks.
I have been out of the front end game for a number of years. Any other reflex's I should follow.