Oracle ADF Accessing the Current Date and Time

This is an extract from section 9.11 of the Oracle ADF Developer's Guide for Forms and 4/GL developers. It provides two functions for getting the current date and the current date and time from within code written inside the BC4J layer.

/**
 * requires import oracle.jbo.domain.Date;
 */
protected Date getCurrentDate()
{
    return new Date( Date.getCurrentDate());
}

/**
 * requires import oracle.jbo.Domain.Date and java.sql.Timestamp
 */
protected Date getCurrentDateWithTime()
{
    return new Date( new Timestamp( System.currentTimeMillis()));
}

Conventing from a date of type java.util.Date to an oracle.jbo.domain.Date can be achieved using the following technique (the code also demonstrates the use of a date parser to convert arbitrary date formats to valid Java dates.) :

protected static final DateFormat dateFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");

public void setDateFromString( String value)
{                 
    try {
        java.util.Date javaDate = dateFormater.parse(value);
        Timestamp curTimestamp = new Timestamp( javaDate.getTime());
        oracle.jbo.domain.Date oracleDate = new oracle.jbo.domain.Date(curTimestamp);
        this.setAccidentDate( oracleDate);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();    
        System.out.println("Unable to parse date value " + value);
    }   
}