Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Greetings,

Does anyone know of a custom tag which converts a String to a Date variable?

I am retrieving a String from a bean, format dd/MM/yyyy and passing it to a tag which formats it for output. But so far I haven't been unable to avoid putting a real-time expression to do a Date conversion first:

<fmt:formatDate type="date" value='<%=new Date((String)(pageContext.getAttribute("myBeanDatePropertyAsAString"))) %>' pattern="EEEE d MMMM yyyy"/>

Surely there must be a better way which avoids putting Java into my tag?

Thanks,

Lloyd