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Re: calendar component

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:42:37 -0700

Senthil Chidambaram wrote:
> Bill,
> Calendar component allows us to pick the date based on the locale. This
> particular use case is when we create a timer event management rule,
> this takes a property called pattern where user can enter any kind of
> pattern he/she wants. In this case can we enforce the pattern to be
> locale specific, and don't even show the pattern textfield on the screen.

Why is it important that the user be able to enter a pattern?

Is the pattern defined by an existing java.* class, or do you define
and interpret the pattern yourself?