Matt Raible - 23/Sep/05 11:16 AM For some reason, Struts in Tomcat can't determine the different between a Date and a Timestamp: protected Object convertToString(Class type, Object value) { if (value instanceof Date) {             DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(DateUtil.getDatePattern());             // this works in unit tests, but when running in Tomcat, a java.util.Date             // comes through as a java.sql.Timestamp - wierd eh?             if (value instanceof Timestamp) {                 df = new SimpleDateFormat(TS_FORMAT);             }      try {                 return df.format(value);             } catch (Exception e) {                 e.printStackTrace();                 throw new ConversionException("Error converting Date to String");             }         } else {             return value.toString();         }     }

Matt Raible - 23/Sep/05 02:13 PM Fixed in CVS - but now all dates render with a Timestamp format. Need to find a fix.

Matt Raible - 06/Apr/06 05:51 AM Delaying fix b/c no one has reported issues with it.

Samuel Huang - 11/Apr/06 09:30 PM Hi, I found a workaround for this problem. Not sure if it qualify for a fix but here it is. If a domain object Event.java has the following properties private Date dateStart; private Date dateEnd; private Timestamp timeSubmitted; ..... // Usual getter and setter methods for above fields Then create metadata/web/xDoclet-EventForm.xml and add protected java.sql.Timestamp timeSubmitted; protected String timeSubmittedDisplay; public String getTimeSubmittedDisplay() { return timeSubmittedDisplay; } public void setTimeSubmittedDisplay(String timeSubmittedDisplay){ this.timeSubmittedDisplay = timeSubmittedDisplay; } public java.sql.Timestamp getTimeSubmitted() { if (getTimeSubmittedDisplay() != null) { this.timeSubmitted = (java.sql.Timestamp)org.appfuse.util.TimestampConverter.convertToTimestamp(getTimeSubmittedDisplay()); } return this.timeSubmitted; } public void setTimeSubmitted(java.sql.Timestamp timeSubmitted) { this.timeSubmitted = timeSubmitted; if (timeSubmitted != null) { setTimeSubmittedDisplay(org.appfuse.util.TimestampConverter.convertToString(timeSubmitted)); } } Now the modified TimestampConverter from appfuse public class TimestampConverter extends DateConverter {     public static final String TS_FORMAT = DateUtil.getDatePattern() + " HH:mm:ss.S"; protected Object convertToDate(Class type, Object value) {         DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(TS_FORMAT);         if (value instanceof String) {             try {                 if (StringUtils.isEmpty(value.toString())) {                     return null;                 } return df.parse((String) value);             } catch (Exception pe) {                 throw new ConversionException("Error converting String to Timestamp");             }         } throw new ConversionException("Could not convert "                 + value.getClass().getName() + " to " + type.getName());     }     protected Object convertToString(Class type, Object value) {         DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(TS_FORMAT);         if (value instanceof Date) {             try {                 return df.format(value);             } catch (Exception e) {                 throw new ConversionException("Error converting Timestamp to String");             }         } return value.toString();     }          public static String convertToString(Object value) {         DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(TS_FORMAT);         if (value instanceof Timestamp) {             try {                 return df.format(value);             } catch (Exception e) {                 throw new ConversionException("Error converting Timestamp to String");             }         } return value.toString();     }      public static Timestamp convertToTimestamp(Object value) {         DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(TS_FORMAT);         if (value instanceof String) {             try {                 if (StringUtils.isEmpty(value.toString())) {                     return null;                 } return new Timestamp( df.parse((String) value).getTime() );             } catch (Exception pe) {                 throw new ConversionException("Error converting String to Timestamp");             }         } throw new ConversionException("Could not convert String to Timestamp");     } } That's it. If I didn't forget anything. Basically logic for converting Timestamp is moved to ActionForm. One thing to watch out for is if particular date format is required e.g. dd/mm/yyyy then edit(..) of EventAction may need to set Date explicitly like public ActionForward edit(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,                               HttpServletRequest request,                               HttpServletResponse response)     throws Exception {         if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {             log.debug("Entering 'edit' method");         } EventForm eventForm = (EventForm) form; // if an id is passed in, look up the user - otherwise         // don't do anything - user is doing an add         if (eventForm.getEventId() != null) {             EventManager mgr = (EventManager) getBean("eventManager");             Event event = mgr.getEvent(eventForm.getEventId());             eventForm = (EventForm) convert(event);              DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(DateUtil.getDatePattern());              Date startDate, endDate;             try {              startDate = event.getDateStart();              if ( startDate!=null)              eventForm.setDateStart( df.format(startDate) );             } catch (Exception e) {                 log.error("Error getting dateStart field of Event in 'dd/MM/yyyy' format: " + e );             }              try {              endDate = event.getDateEnd();              if ( endDate!=null)              eventForm.setDateEnd( df.format(endDate) );             } catch (Exception e) {              log.error("Error getting dateEnd field of Event in 'dd/MM/yyyy' format: " + e );             }              updateFormBean(mapping, request, eventForm);         } return mapping.findForward("edit");     } Hope this is useful Sam,