Maybe I'm going about this all wrong but here goes...
I'm trying to allow users of my Portlet app to input a date in whatever their localized format would normally be. I plan to parse the string date using a SimpleDateFormat object based on the user's current Locale on the backend.
I'm pretty sure that part will work (right?) but I'm confused on what the easiest way is to display the "helper" text that goes with the form field in the UI.
E.g.
Start Date (mm/dd/yyyy)
versus
Start Date (dd/mm/yyyy)
Is there a way to get that information from the localized formatter somehow that I'm missing? The only other alternative I can think of at this point is to add that text to the property files for translation into each language but it just seems like that shouldn't be necessary.
I guess even if I can get t