If you only want to compare yyyy-mm-dd you can use the java.sql.Date class, the valueOf method does the trick. It's perfectly safe as the sql Date class is a subclass of the Date class.

Check out the docs here for more detail.

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Based on "Random Password Generation"

Configurable number formatter.

This code illustrates using ruby REXML package. It converts J2EE web application deployment descriptor web.xml into Freemind mindmap document.

Read a eight bytes in little endian order from the given InputStream and create a long out of them.

This little tool is pretty useful for administrators who wear the hat of both system admin and DBA on Linux/MySQL boxes. I wrote it as kind of a joke for our Perl developers, but now I use it just about every day for everything from at prompt hackups to full on table space utilization monitoring scripts.

The snippet has the library script that you can source into scripts that actually do work, as well as a script that uses the functions in the libraries. Anyone who has used the C API should be able to relate to using this script.

It's pretty fast and lightweight. It makes only one external call to mysql and sed per query. The rest is all bash builtins. Requires bash > 3.0

Set's a filter for what files to accept when using JFileChooser.

I needed these for a recent project, bits and bytes constants.

Convert a password returned by JPasswordField::getPassword() into a String.

This class uses reflection to locate option setters. Client class must contains methods setFile (to receive file names from the command line) and setOption### (to receive option ###).

(See also adapter-based implementation)