I'm working on a system that uses Jasper reports. Recently it started throwing this error: org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConversionException: Unparseable date: "03/03/1981" at org.apache.commons.beanutils.locale.BaseLocaleConverter.convert(BaseLocaleConverter.java:241) at org.apache.commons.beanutils.locale.LocaleConvertUtilsBean.convert(LocaleConvertUtilsBean.java:285) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRAbstractTextDataSource.convertStringValue(JRAbstractTextDataSource.java:69) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRXmlDataSource.getFieldValue(JRXmlDataSource.java:313) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.setOldValues(JRFillDataset.java:823) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.next(JRFillDataset.java:787) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.next(JRBaseFiller.java:1478) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReport(JRVerticalFiller.java:125) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:942) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:860) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.fillReport(JRFiller.java:84) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReport(JasperFillManager.java:624) at XmlJasperInterface.report(XmlJasperInterface.java:89) at XmlJasperInterface.main(XmlJasperInterface.java:63) Caused by: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "03/03/1981" at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:337) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRDateLocaleConverter.parse(JRDateLocaleConverter.java:84) at org.apache.commons.beanutils.locale.BaseLocaleConverter.convert(BaseLocaleConverter.java:232) ... 13 more I'm not sure what caused it. We've also recently upgraded Jasper reports but I remember it was working after the upgrade. I've found a blog post titled BeanUtils, Digester, and Type Conversion which points to add these lines: String pattern = "MM/dd/yyyy"; Locale locale = Locale.getDefault(); DateLocaleConverter converter = new DateLocaleConverter(locale, pattern); converter.setLenient(true); ConvertUtils.register(converter, java.util.Date.class); but they've changed nothing. I still get the same error. The line that triggers the error is this one: jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport, null, new JRXmlDataSource(System.in, selectCriteria)); Thanks. Post Edited by pupeno at 09/15/2010 14:27