I have the following java class, Date212. Originally it was meant to sort dates from a text file and output the sorted date in the format October 01, 2014. Which it does, but only for a text file imported to the overall java project. I need this class to be modified to do the same when the text file is selected to be opened from a drop down menu. Thank you for any help.

class Date212

{

/*Establishes the names of the months

*that the number representations of

*the months will be converted to.

*/

private String monthsInYear[]=

{"","January","February",

"March","April","May",

"June","July","August",

"September","October",

"November","December"};

/*All variables set to

* private to prevent

* user tampering.

*/

private int month;

private String monthString; //Needed to convert the number representation of month to the name of the month.

private int day;

private int year;

/*Assigns variables year,

* month, and day.

*/

public Date212 (int y, int m, int d) {

year=y;

month=m;

day=d;

monthString = monthsInYear[m];

}

/*Gets and sets the information

* from the day, month, and year

* sections of the string respectively.

*/

public int getDay() {

return day;

}

public int getMonth() {

return month;

}

public int getYear() {

return year;

}

public void setDay(int d) {

day=d;

}

public void setMonth(int m) {

month=m;

}

public void setYear(int y) {

year=y;

}

public Date212 (String d)

{

/*Calling three argument constructor

* Substring reads the data from the textfile

* and separates them, with years being the first

* 4 numbers, months being the fifth and sixth numbers,

* and days being the seventh and eighth numbers.

*/

this(Integer.parseInt(d.substring(0, 4)), Integer.parseInt(d.substring(4, 6)), Integer.parseInt(d.substring(6, 8)));

}

//Method that returns date in the required format mm dd, yyyy

public String getAsString()

{

return monthString + " " + String.format("%02d", day) + ", " + String.format("%04d", year);

}

/*

* Returns the string representation of the Date212 object

*/

public String toString() {

String result = "";

result += + this.year;

result += this.month < 10 ? "0" + this.month : this.month;

result += this.day < 10 ? "0" + this.day : this.day;

return result;

}

/*

* Override compareTo method

* Comparison of date objects.

* Compares date values to find

* out which is larger for

* sorting

*/

public int compareTo(Date212 other) {

if (this.year < other.year) {

return -1;

} else if (this.year > other.year) {

return 1;

}

if (this.month < other.month) {

return -1;

} else if (this.month > other.month) {

return 1;

}

if (this.day < other.day) {

return -1;

} else if (this.day > other.day) {

return 1;

}

return 0;

}

}