Question

How would I convert a String date in the form of 24/04/2012 to a date variable in the format of 24-Apr-12, which can later be passed into my Oracle database.

I have tried this but it says the string date is unparsable:

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
Date newDate = (Date) format.parse(date);

Answer 1

You are doing this backwards:

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date newDate = format.parse(date);

DateFormat formatOutput = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
String output = formatOutput.format(newDate);

But if what you are doing is passing the date to Oracle, you should really use a PreparedStatement