Java Date getDate() depricated, refactored to use calendar but looks ugly

Question

Eclipse is warning that I'm using a depricated method:

eventDay = event.getEvent_s_date().getDate();

So I rewrote it as

eventDay = DateUtil.toCalendar(event.getEvent_s_date()).get(Calendar.DATE);

It seems to work but it looks ugly. My question is did I refactor this the best way? If not how would you refactor? I need the day number of a date stored in a bean.

I ended up adding a method in my DateUtils to clean it up

eventDay = DateUtil.getIntDate(event.getEvent_s_date());

public static int getIntDate(Date date) {
    return DateUtil.toCalendar(date).get(Calendar.DATE);
}

Answer 1

It's fine. To me the uglier bit is the underscore in the method name. Java conventions frown upon underscores there.

You may want to take a look at joda-time. It is the de-facto standard for working with date/time:

new DateTime(date).getDayOfMonth();

Answer 2

If you want a more elegant Date/Time api, use Joda Time.