Cast string to date Java

Question

Any ideas why this isnt working?

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy");
    Date date1 = null, date2 = null;
    String start, finish;
    System.out.println("Please enter a start date:");
    while(date1 == null){
        try{
            start = scan.next();
            date1 = (Date) df.parse(start);
        }catch(ParseException e){
            System.out.println("Please enter a valid date!");
        }
    }

Im getting a classCastException

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.Date cannot be cast to java.sql.Date

I can't see the problem?

Answer 1

You're importing java.sql.Date instead of java.util.Date.

Answer 2

You have

import java.sql.Date 

somewhere up top. Gotta be careful about the two Date classes; they aren't interchangeable.