jQuary Datepicker is clering the field

Question

Hello All,

I am getting this strange bug. I'm using a jquery ui date picker in my Spring MVC application.

The controller is populating the form which are populating on the jsp.

<form:form  modelAttribute="form8DContainment" method="post">

    <form:input path="finalDate"/>
    <form:input path="finalDate"/>

</form:form>

I have applied datepicker something like this for these related date fields

var dates = $( "#initalDate, #finalDate" ).datepicker({
        changeMonth: true,
        numberOfMonths: 1,
        onSelect: function( selectedDate ) {
            var option = this.id == "initalDate" ? "minDate" : "maxDate",
                instance = $( this ).data( "datepicker" );
                date = $.datepicker.parseDate(
                    instance.settings.dateFormat ||
                    $.datepicker._defaults.dateFormat,
                    selectedDate, instance.settings );
                dates.not( this ).datepicker( "option", option, date );
        }
    });

But once the page is loaded the initial and final date fields are blank, but if I remove the datepicker code the dates gets populated fine. Am I missing something here?

Thanks,

Ravi