what is the best way to use dates with java swing

Question

what i want to do is having like the java script popup date chooser in my application. i am using java swing and would like to avoid any input mistakes by the user. specifying a format is easy to implement but not user friendly for the user. what are your suggestion ? any libraries?

Answer 1

There are a number of date picker libraries for Swing.

I have used the JXDatePicker from SwingX and JCalendar in the past.

Answer 2

Use a date picker, like JCalendar or JDatePicker. Since users can't type raw date strings, you don't have to worry about their mistakes.

Edit: drhorrible is right. I've fixed the link now.