Validation Problem in Struts 2

I have a date fields in jsp splitted into 3 text boxes , each text box corresponds to DD , MM & YYYY respectively. So I ha开发者_运维技巧ve defined 3 String fields in my action to get those values. Now I have to merge the three fields and for a date object to persist in Database.

Where I am stuck is how to validate in XML. To validate individual text boxes I have used regex to check correct format of data. It displays three error messages in case I do not fill date as I am not able to short circuit regex validations.

Also how to do validation like date should not be greater than current date .

can somebody post a sample code to short circuit regex expression for 3 different fields? Help is appreciated.

Thanks

Rajiv

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validate DD to be between 01 and 31. MM to be between 01 and 12, YYYY to be whatever range of years you wish to allow.

Then use new SimpleDateFormatter("dd-MM-YYYY") when you concat your three strings together with "-"'s in between.