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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">The date tag allows to format a Date in a quick and easy way. User can specify a custom format (eg. &#8220;dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm&#8221;), can generate easy readable notations (like &#8220;in 2 hours, 14 minutes&#8221;), or can just fall back on a predefined format with key &#8216;struts.date.format&#8217; in the properties file.</p>
<p> Struts 2 &#8220;date&#8221; tag is used to format Date object in two ways :</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Custom date format (eg. “dd/MM/yyyy”).</b></li>
<li>&#8220;<b>nice&#8221; attribute to format date into an easy readable notations like &#8220;this date is 162 days ago&#8221;.</b></li>
</ul>
<p>In this tutorial, it shows the use of Struts 2 &#8220;date&#8221; tag to format a Date object into &#8220;custom date format&#8221; and &#8220;easy readable notations&#8221;.</p>
<p> <b>Create action class:</b></p>
<pre class="highlight" name="code">package com.dineshonjava.struts2.action; 
 
import java.util.Calendar; 
import java.util.Date; 
 
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport; 
 
/** 
 * @author Dinesh Rajput 
 * 
 */ 
public class DataTagAction extends ActionSupport { 
 
 private static final long serialVersionUID = -7744420104547018874L; 
 private Date birthday; 
 private Calendar caldate = Calendar.getInstance(); 
 
 public String execute() { 
 caldate.set(1983, 7, 6); 
 birthday = caldate.getTime(); 
 return SUCCESS; 
 } 
 public Date getBirthday() { 
 return birthday; 
 } 
 public void setBirthday(Date birthday) { 
 this.birthday = birthday; 
 } 
 
} 
</pre>
<p>
<b>Create views</b><br />
Let us have <i><b>success.jsp</b></i> with the following content:</p>
<pre class="highlight" name="code"><;%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>; 
<;%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags"%>; 
<;html>; 
<;head>; 
<;STYLE type="text/css">; 
 
b{color: blue;} 
 
<;/STYLE>; 
<;title>;Date Data Tag Struts2 | dineshonjava.com<;/title>; 
<;/head>; 
<;body>; 
 <;h2>;An example of the Date tag: <;/h2>; 
 <;b>;Birthday in Date Format(EEEE yyyy-MM-dd):<;/b>;<;br/>;<;br/>; 
 <;s:date name="birthday" format="EEEE yyyy-MM-dd" />;<;hr>; 
 <;b>;Birthday in Date Format (EEEE MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm AM/PM):<;/b>;<;br/>;<;br/>; 
 <;s:date name="birthday" format="EEEE MM/dd/yyyy 'at' hh:mm a" />;<;hr>; 
 <;b>;Birthday in Date Format (EEEE dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm AM/PM) :<;/b>;<;br/>;<;br/>; 
 <;s:date name="birthday" format="EEEE dd-MMM-yyyy 'at' hh:mm a" />;<;hr>; 
 <;b>; Birthday in Format (EEEE dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm) :<;/b>;<;br/>;<;br/>; 
 <;s:date name="birthday" format="EEEE dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm" />;<;hr>; 
 <;b>;Birthday in Date Format(Nice):<;/b>;<;br/>;<;br/>; 
 <;s:date name="birthday" format="yyyy-MM-dd" nice="true"/>;<;hr>; 
<;/body>; 
<;/html>; 
</pre>
<p>
<b>Configuration Files</b><br />
<i><b>struts.xml</b></i></p>
<pre class="highlight" name="code"><;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>; 
<;!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC 
 "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN" 
 "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">; 
 
<;struts>; 
 <;constant name="struts.enable.DynamicMethodInvocation" value="false" />; 
 <;constant name="struts.devMode" value="false" />; 
 <;constant name="struts.custom.i18n.resources" value="myapp" />; 
 
 <;package name="default" extends="struts-default" namespace="/">; 
 <;action name="datetag" class="com.dineshonjava.struts2.action.DataTagAction">; 
 <;result name="success">;/success.jsp<;/result>; 
 <;/action>; 
 <;/package>; 
 <;/struts>; 
</pre>
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<p><b>Your <i>web.xml</i> should look like:</b></p>
<pre class="highlight" name="code"><;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>; 
<;web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">; 
 <;display-name>;Struts2DataTag<;/display-name>; 
 <;filter>; 
 <;filter-name>;struts2<;/filter-name>; 
 <;filter-class>; 
 org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher 
 <;/filter-class>; 
 <;/filter>; 
 <;filter-mapping>; 
 <;filter-name>;struts2<;/filter-name>; 
 <;url-pattern>;/*<;/url-pattern>; 
 <;/filter-mapping>; 
 <;welcome-file-list>; 
 <;welcome-file>;index.jsp<;/welcome-file>; 
 <;/welcome-file-list>; 
<;/web-app>; 
</pre>
<p>
Right click on the project name and click <b>Export >; WAR</b> File to create a War file. Then deploy this WAR in the Tomcat&#8217;s webapps directory. Finally, start Tomcat server and try to access</p>
<p> <b>URL </b><i><b>http://localhost:8080/doj/datetag.</b></i></p>
<p> This will give you following screen:</p>
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<p><b>Download Source Code</b><br />
<b><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/dineshonjava.com/dineshonjava/dineshonjava/DateDataTag.zip?attredirects=0&;d=1" target="_blank">DateDataTagExample.zip</a></b></p>
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