how to validate a date on a jtextfield ?

how do i validate a jtextfield which only allow dd/mm/yyyy in it.
the length must be 10 and any other format will cause an error to pop out.

any help is much appreciated.


thanks

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Well I have developed JDateTextField. U will find it at...
http://codeguru.developer.com/java/swing

Read the article. It doesn't validate using the format u specified, u can create '...Format'. If u want to restrict the keys then u can create '...Listener' for ur purpose.

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