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Convert String to LocalDate in JodaTime and Java 8

Handling dates (and time) is never easy and time-consuming. Moreover, its support by Java has been inadequate. If you find yourself longing for some libraries to ease the pain, go ahead because you are not alone. For pre-Java 8, one of the best options is JodaTime. Then came Java 8 with java.time API, a project that has been led jointly by the author of Joda-Time (Stephen Colebourne) and Oracle, under JSR 310.

For more details, please read Java SE 8 Date and Time by Ben Evans and Richard Warburton.

Back to the topic. Here are ways how to convert a date string in a particular format to a LocalDate object.

Using JodaTime

Using Java 8 java.time API

Note that you still need to include any JodaTime dependencies unless you are using Java 8 all the way.

 

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