Date Parsing in Java

High , Friend this is small but irritating program when u can't manage it properly.U can create date object of any date in any input format changing the SipleDateFormat constructor parameter.

//Program code...
 
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateParse {

    public static void main(String ars[])
    {
    DateParse dp=new DateParse();
    Date mm=dp.paseDate("22-2-1988");
    System.out.println("date="+mm.toString());
   
    }
    public Date paseDate(String dateParam)
    {
        Date tt=new Date();
       
        SimpleDateFormat smdf=new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
        System.out.println("");
        try
        {
        tt=smdf.parse(dateParam);
        }catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return tt;
    }
}