Adding additional behaviour to Date - which pattern best suits the situation

[Joshua Antony]

Say I need to add some new methods for java.util.Date. Which of the below are better options

1. Subclass Date and provide additional behaviors in the subclass
2. Decorate the date objects with wrapper
3. Add utility DateUtil and provide additional behaviors.

What I feel is that using wrapper would result in too much of delegated methods and subclass would be the best option.
Need an opinion if my assumption is correct

Cheers-
Joshua

[David Newton]

It really depends on your goals.

I don't have an issue with having "too many" delegated methods--they're essentially invisible on the cognitive level. Subclassing *can* be the "right" answer, as long as the original class provides the kind of access you need.

[Pallav Bora]

They may already have done some work for you here:

http://www.date4j.net/

[David Newton]

Personally, I prefer Joda-Time.

[Hongli Li]

Joda-Time is all the rage these days.

[Joshua Antony]

Thank you guys