Question

I am pulling a long timestamp from a database, but want to present it as a Date using Tags only, no embedded java in the JSP.

I’ve created my own tag to do this because I was unable to get the parseDate and formatDate tags to work, but that’s not to say they don’t work.

Any advice?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The parseDate and formatDate tags work, but they work with Date objects. You can call new java.util.Date(longvalue) to get a date object, then pass that to the standard tag.

somewhere other than the jsp create your date object.

long longvalue = ...;//from database. java.util.Date dateValue = new java.util.Date(longvalue); request.setAttribute('dateValue', dateValue); 

put it on the request and then you can access it in your tag like this.

<fmt:formatDate value='${dateValue}' pattern='MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm'/>