Need help with Custom date formatters in spring 3.0

[vivek d r]

Hi i need to parse date format passed to webservice to specific format.
i tried below changes in application-context.xml but still no luck with it. Any help will be deeply appreciated. thanks

    <mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="conversionService" />
   <bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean"> 
   	<property name="converters"> 
   		<set> 
   			<bean class="ws.marshaller.DateFormatter"/> 
   		</set> 
   	</property> 
   </bean>

package ws.marshaller;

import java.text.DateFormat ;
import java.text.ParseException ;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat ;
import java.util.Date ;
import java.util.Locale ;
import org.springframework.format.Formatter ;
	
	public final class DateFormatter implements Formatter<Date> {

    private String pattern="yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mmss";
    
    public DateFormatter(String pattern) {
        this.pattern = pattern;
    }
    
    public String print(Date date, Locale locale) {
        if (date == null) {
            return "";
        }
        return getDateFormat(locale).format(date);
    }

    public Date parse(String formatted, Locale locale) throws ParseException {
        if (formatted.length() == 0) {
            return null;
        }
        return getDateFormat(locale).parse(formatted);
    }

    protected DateFormat getDateFormat(Locale locale) {
        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(this.pattern, locale);
        dateFormat.setLenient(false);
        return dateFormat;
    }

}