need help on custom date formatter in Spring 3.0

[vivek dr]

Hi i need to parse date format passed to webservice to specific format.
By the way what is the default date format that it would understand???

no matter whatever i try i get below error in soapUI:

<data contentType="null" contentLength="147"><![CDATA[Request Failed: Cannot convert value of type [java.lang.String] to required type [java.util.Date]: no matching editors or conversion strategy found]]></data>

i googled a lot for the answers.. found few none of them worked.. below is what i tried,

application-context.xml

<mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="conversionService" />
   <bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean"> 
   	<property name="converters"> 
   		<set> 
   			<bean class="ws.marshaller.DateFormatter"/> 
   		</set> 
   	</property> 
   </bean>

package ws.marshaller;

import java.text.DateFormat ;
import java.text.ParseException ;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat ;
import java.util.Date ;
import java.util.Locale ;
import org.springframework.format.Formatter ;
	
	public final class DateFormatter implements Formatter<Date> {

    private String pattern="yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mmss";
    
    public DateFormatter(String pattern) {
        this.pattern = pattern;
    }
    
    public String print(Date date, Locale locale) {
        if (date == null) {
            return "";
        }
        return getDateFormat(locale).format(date);
    }

    public Date parse(String formatted, Locale locale) throws ParseException {
        if (formatted.length() == 0) {
            return null;
        }
        return getDateFormat(locale).parse(formatted);
    }

    protected DateFormat getDateFormat(Locale locale) {
        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(this.pattern, locale);
        dateFormat.setLenient(false);
        return dateFormat;
    }

}

Any help will be deeply appreciated. since i have been trying with various permutations and combinations past 2 weeks with no luck... even posted this on spring community,, i got no response :-(

[Bill Gorder]

Hi i need to parse date format passed to webservice to specific format.

You are receiving a String in an MVC controller that must be converted to a date? If so what does the date string look like and how is it being posted in, perhaps show your handler method in your controller that is receiving this input.