Parse a string to Date and format a date to string

Parse a string to Date:

  DateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
  Date date = null;

  try {
      date = (Date) parser.parse("31-Jul-07");
      System.out.println("date=" + date);//Tue Jul 31 00:00:00 CDT 2007
  } catch (ParseException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
  }

Format a date to string:

  Format fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
  String iso = fmt.format(date);
  System.out.println("iso=" + iso);//2007-07-31