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| Now, struts will not set a Date object on your form (even if you apply the datePatten dd/MM/yyyy). | 
| Now, struts will not set a Date object directly from your form (even if you apply the datePatten dd/MM/yyyy). | 
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| So you need a field to capture the string input: | 
| So you need a field to capture the string input of the dob field, so now your Form looks like this: | 
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| private String dobString; | 
| public MyForm { | 
| java.util.Date dob; | 
| String dobString; | 
| } | 
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| Struts only seems to be able to set the date property as a java.lang.String...  you will of course need getters and setters on these as well. | 
| You will of course need getters and setters on these as well. | 
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| return this.datetimeOfOffence; | 
| return this.dob; | 
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| if (getDob() != null) { | 
| StringBuffer date = new StringBuffer(); | 
| dateTime.append(getDobString()); | 
| return dateTime.toString(); | 
| } | 
| return null; | 
| return this.dobString; | 
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| public void setDobString(String dobString) { | 
| this.dobString = dobString; | 
| } | 
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| Finally, you should validate your date string input, so in your struts validation.xml file you should | 
| have an entry that looks like: | 
|  | 
| {{{ | 
| <form name="myForm"> | 
| <field property="dobString" depends="required,date" > | 
| <arg0 key='dob.message.key'/> | 
| <var><var-name>datePattern</var-name><var-value>dd/MM/yyyy</var-value></var> | 
| </field> | 
| </form> | 
| }}} |