Setting the default selected date for an OAMessageDateFieldBean

I have seen couple of threads in recent past on OA Forums about setting default value in OAMessageDateFieldBean, so, did a little R n D :) on OAMessageDateFieldBean.

OAMessageDateFieldBean in framework, u will find its nothing but a onClick js event is called on the imageicon attached with messagetextinput bean(in case the type is Date) and OAInlineDatePickerBean is opened in a modal js window.

Setting deafult date in the OAMessageDateFieldBean, also sets the OAInlineDatePickerBean , as it takes the default value from OAMessageDateFieldBean.
So, here is code for setting/getting value both in both in OAMessageDateFieldBean and OAInlineDatePickerBean :
import java.sql.Date;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
java.sql.Timestamp;

//defining format of date
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("mm/dd/yyyy");
//define date as string
String dateString = "06/30/1984";
//defining new java.sql.date
Date sqlDate=new Date(f.parse(dateString).getTime());


OAMessageDateFieldBean dateField = (OAMessageDateFieldBean)webBean.findIndexedChildRecursive();
dateField.setValue(pageContext,sqlDate);


//getting oracle.jbo.domain.Date object from OAMessageDateFieldBean
//in process form request
Timestamp ts = (Timestamp)dateField.getValue(pageContext);
System.out.println(ts.getTime());
java.sql.Date select = new java.sql.Date(ts.getTime());
oracle.jbo.domain.Date sd=new oracle.jbo.domain.Date(select);

//You can also set min Value and Max value in OAMessageDateFieldBean which
//will also be set in OAInlineDatePickerBean
//Here is code
dateField.setMinValue(minDate);
dateField.setMaxValue(maxValue);


I hope this helps all.