Question

I wrote a Java (Swing) application on Windows, and tried running it on Mac. But my program stopped at the SimpleDataFormat constructor.

Why does this happen?

I have another question too. What can I using instead of SimpleDataFormat?

        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm | dd.MM.YYYY");
        Date dateLastUpdate = dateFormat.parse(lastUpdate.getValue());
        AccountInfo accInfo = new AccountInfo(accNumber, apiName, securityWord);

The first line does not execute. The date is precisely in the necessary format.

Answer 1

Your format for parsing should be then

"HH:mm '|' dd.MM.yyyy"

since ‘|’ is to be swallowed by the parser without interpreting.

As for replacements, should you need ones, check out DateTimeFormatterBuilder from Joda Time.