Calendar Month Represented Visually

[AdamRice32]

Here's an interesting problem to which I haven't been able to come up with an intelligent solution:

I need to display months of a Calendar in a JSP or the like. What is a good way to get a list of which days are valid for a particular month? And how can I determine which day of the week (sunday to saturday) the 1st of the month lands on?

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance for any ideas,
Adam Rice

 

[Tarwn]

For the sake of trying to leave you something to do, i am going to outline some of the above things but leave the rest to you

// Step 1, create a calendar object
Calendar cal = new Calendar();
// Step 2, Set it to the desired year/month/date
cal.set(2002,12,1);
// Step 3, Profit...heh :)
// Step 4, Our calendar is initialized to the first day of the month, what day is it?
System.out.println("The first of the month is.... "+cal.get(DAY_OF_WEEK));
// Step 5, get last day of month
System.out.println("The last day of the month is:"+cal.getActualMaximum(DAY_OF_MONTH));

Etc
There is actually some rally cool methods to play with with the calendar object, since there are so many differant field types (DAY_OF_WEEK,DAY_OF_MONTH, WEEK_OF_MONTH) you can actually create output based on each month and let a user move forward through it by weeks rather than months, or do strange calculations based on the number of sundays in a month, etc.

As always I will point you to the API to use as a reference, and I hope the above was what you were looking for,
API:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/

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[AdamRice32]

Cool... thanks much. This should definitely do the trick.