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Tad,
any reason why you don't want to use serialization?
...Conrad

Tad Frysinger wrote:

> I need to stringify a Java Date type, and then create a date type from
> that string.  The toString() method in the Date class has not been
> deprecated so this seems to be the most straightforward way to get a
> string, but parse() seems to now be deprecated.  Yet I see nothing else
> in either Date or Calendar/GregorianCalendar to create a date from the
> result of toString() (or from any other string, for that matter).  What
> is the best way to do this?
>
> What I am trying to do is to come up with a good general way to transmit
> Java data types across process boundaries using the three most common
> standards (RMI, CORBA, DCOM).  The way I've chosen for now is resource
> expensive, but at least it will work: I am going to translate all Java
> data types I intend to support to encoded strings, pass the string, then
> assemble them again on the other side.  Thus, I just need a convenient
> way to create a Date data type from a string.
>
> Tad