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.

Do you find yourself implementing toString on your objects all the time, and wondering why (the debugger seems to do a pretty good job of it all by itself)...well, here's a bit of introspection applied to the problem. This is for all those quick debug sessions where you just want to do System.out.println(myComplexObject).

Instead, just do System.out.println(DebugPrint.toString(myComplexObject));

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

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 is a very convenient way to remove all doubles from a List in Java. The only prerequisite is that the elements in the list have proper equals and hashCode methods.

It work by using the constructor of a Set that takes a Collection as an argument.

I poured the snippet in a little program so can run it straight away.