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this is my first questions here.

I am facing a issue with a API to handle Dates in JAVA. I am not a very experienced programmer and my english is very bad.

Plataform

• The front end is a JSF page with RichFaces
• The application generate reports with JasperReports
• The back end is a Spring 3.1 Application
• Is desirable to support Calendar and XMLGregorianCalendar (for Jaxb2 Serialization)

Code

• I made the methods stringToDate, dateToString and init as synchronized because SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe, and I only want one initialization.
• I made the DateFormat not lenient because I don't want to handle wrong format dates
• The methods names are for enhance readability (as* always return a String, and parse* always return a Date).

Thanks for reading, and sorry for my bad English, Any suggestions is welcome

I am facing a issue with an API to handle dates in Java. I am not a very experienced programmer and my English is very bad.

Platform

• The front end is a JSF page with RichFaces
• The application generate reports with JasperReports
• The back end is a Spring 3.1 Application
• Is desirable to support Calendar and XMLGregorianCalendar (for Jaxb2 Serialization)

• I made the methods stringToDate, dateToString and init as synchronized because SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe, and I only want one initialization.
• I made the DateFormat not lenient because I don't want to handle wrong format dates
• The methods names are for enhance readability (as* always return a String, and parse* always return a Date).