beans and dates

[sde]

how would you manage date values using beans?

for example, i have a user class. the date of registration in the class is a java date value.

do you just pass strings for your get/set methods, and convert them to java dates?

[Belisarius]

I don't even bother with the Date class, I just leave them as strings. But I don't need to do anything terribly complex with them.

I would just pass Strings around, and create the Date in the bean. That means someone working on the JSP would have less Java coding to worry about.