validating a text field that has date in the format mm/dd/yyyy

What you can do is use the SimpleDateFormat class to try and parse the text date into a Date object like this:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");

Date mydate = sdf.parse(textdate);

if that fails than the date has the wrong format (you'll get a ParseException if I'm not mistaken).

The next step is to create a Date for 1/1/2007 and then do a date compare between your two dates. You can create a date yourself using the Calendar class.

gimbal2a at 2007-7-8 23:41:07 >