Question

So I currently have a registration.html page that holds two dates in a drop down list.

    <td>Preferred Date:</td>
    <td><select name="datePreferred">
            <option value="dateOne">08/18/2012</option>
            <option value="dateTwo">08/25/2012</option>
    </select>
    </td>

For my JSP page I have the following

    <%
    String dPreferred = request.getParameter("datePreferred");
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("mm/dd/yyyy");
    Date dateObj = dateFormat.parse(dPreferred);
    %>

However I seem to be getting “Cannot find symbol – symbol: class Date – location: class SimplifiedJSPServlet

What I am trying to do is create and store a date object that can be written to a text file and also displayed on a verification page.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated :).

Answer 1

Have you imported Date in your JSP?:

<%@ page import="java.util.Date" %>