[Opensource] SimpleDateFormat

[Ben Switzer]

Good day all.

I've been contemplating how best to format dates on an application wide
basis.  What I've done is as follows:

in DBObject.java added method:
	public String getFieldDateFormatted(String fieldName, String
pattern)
                      throws DBException {
		return jdbcUtil.getDateFieldFormatted(this, fieldName,
pattern);
	}

in JDBCUtil.java added method:
	public String getDateFieldFormatted(DataObject theObject, String
fieldName, String pattern) 
				throws DataException {
    	
    		String formattedString;
    	
    		synchronized(dateConvertFormatMap) {
            	SimpleDateFormat formatter =
getSimpleDateFormat(pattern);
            	formattedString =
formatter.format(this.getDateField(theObject, fieldName));
        	}
        
        	return formattedString;
	}

I then use getFieldDateFormatted as I would gateFieldDate in my
controller, except I supply a SimpleDateFormat pattern to get a nicely
formatted String back.  I'm not one modify the expresso objects in my
apps directly, but I wasn't sure how else to achieve this quickly and
universally through my app.  Any suggestions or comments?

Best,
Ben Switzer [ben at site85.com]

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