Formating Date in OAF

I was working with OAF date conversion and I felt it bit complex. Because we have different date formats in Java .I found this code in a site. I found it useful and I am sharing it.

                   java.text.SimpleDateFormat displayDateFormat = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat ("dd-MMM-yyyy");

                   convertedDateString = displayDateFormat.format(convertedDate.dateValue());