Java 6 alternatives for LocalDate and DateTimeFormatter

Question

In a Java 8 project, I can parse the date this way:

LocalDate.parse(
    newDateString, 
    DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(expectedDateFormat) 
)
.format(
    DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(expectedDBDateFormat)
);

My problem is that I have a Java 6 project, and LocalDate and DateTimeFormatter are not defined for Java 6.

How can I parse the date in my Java 6 project?

Answer 1

I would like to use Joda time, you can just make some changes in your code, your code should like like this :

LocalDate.parse(
     newDateString, DateTimeFormat.forPattern(expectedDateFormat)
).toString(DateTimeFormat.forPattern(expectedDBDateFormat));

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The imports

The imports should be :

import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;

Instead of :

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

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Method names

If you note there are a small changes :

In Java 8 Time                            In Joda Time 
ofPattern(String pattern)           =>    forPattern(String pattern)   
format(DateTimeFormatter format)    =>    toString(DateTimeFormat format)