creating custom date formatter in spring framework

[vivek d r]

i want to define custom date formatter for my application. in ApplicationContext.xml i have defined it as

   <bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.format.datetime">
     <property name ="converters">
         <set>
            <bean class="com.ipc.ds.ws.marshaller.DateFormatter"/>
         </set>
     </property>
  </bean>

and i have defined DateFormatter as below,

package com.ipc.ds.ws.marshaller;

import java.text.ParseException ;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat ;
import java.util.Date ;
import java.util.Locale ;
import org.springframework.format.Formatter ;

public class DateFormatter implements Formatter<Date>

{
	DateFormatter(String source) throws ParseException 
	{
		SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss") ;
		Date date = null;
		date = sdf.parse(source);
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see org.springframework.format.Printer#print(java.lang.Object, java.util.Locale)
	 */
	@Override
	public String print(Date object, Locale locale)
	{
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return null ;
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see org.springframework.format.Parser#parse(java.lang.String, java.util.Locale)
	 */
	@Override
	public Date parse(String source, Locale locale) throws ParseException
	{
		SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss") ;
		Date date = null;
		if(source!=null && !source.trim().equals(""))
		{
			try
			{
				date = sdf.parse(source);
			}
			catch (ParseException e)
			{
				throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid date format passed as argument value");
			}
		}
		else
		{
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid date passed as argument value");
		}
		return date;
	}

}

Am i doing it right here?