Validation oracle date field

[igorcin]

Hi,
When I try to save a form generated from seam-gen with a date field (oracle 9i, type Date) I get this error: model validation:failed, with the right format, and get no more clues anywhere. These are the relevant parts of the code:
In UserEdit.xhtml:

<s:decorate id="startdateDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
 <ui:define name="label">startdate</ui:define>
 <h:inputText id="startdate"
 value="#{memberHome.instance.startdate}" required="true">
 <s:convertDateTime pattern="MM/dd/yyyy"/>
 </h:inputText>
 </s:decorate>

and in the correspondig entity (User):

private Date startdate;
 .....
 @Basic @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
 @NotNull
 public Date getStartdate() {
 return this.startdate;
 }
 public void setStartdate(Date startdate) {
 this.startdate = startdate;
 }

Any idea?? I've been looking for a solution for a while, in the forum etc but
I can't go on
Thanks

[ellenzhao]

is your Date in the entity class java.util.Date?

[igorcin]

I' m not sure what you mean, my class is an entity, user object with a field java.util.Date
@Entity
public class User{

private Date startdate;
@Basic @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
@NotNull
public Date getStartdate() {
return this.startdate;
}
public void setStartdate(Date startdate) {
this.startdate = startdate;
}
}

[pmuir]

There is also java.sql.Date. You'll probably have to use your debugger on this one...