Validate DATE format in applet

Hi ,
Kindly Help,
User will enter the date in applet text field and the date has to be validated whether it is in MM/DD/YYYY format. If he has entered in wrong format then need do throw exception.
I have chekced with SimpleDateFormat API, but no of use.

Waiting for the reply..
Thanks in Advance.

What did you try and how was it useless?

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
//sdf.applyPattern("MM/dd/yyyy");
sdf.applyLocalizedPattern("MM/dd/yyyy");


Date testDate = new Date();


try{
testDate = sdf.parse("29/09/2009");
System.out.println("Date :" + sdf.parse("09/29/2009"));
System.out.println("Date :" + sdf.format(testDate));
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("Error :" +e);
}


This is the source i tried which i got from other site...
I thought there would be an exception whne we pass wrong date foramat other than which we set in format..

Code:

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sdf.setLenient(false);

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U are rite buddy...
Code works fine...
Thank u ya...