File CheckSum

Simple Table

Locks a minimim size to a dialog or panel.

Formats milliseconds into a duration string.

Draw a dotted line in Java.

A simple implementation of a Java timer. Executes timer task every second.

Compare two dates in Java.

Remove newslines from a string.

Move a file quickly in java.

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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