public AttributedCharacterIterator formatToCharacterIterator(Object date)
throws IllegalArgumentException {
if (date == null) throw new NullPointerException("null argument");
if (!(date instanceof Date))
throw new IllegalArgumentException("argument should be an instance of java.util.Date");
AttributedFormatBuffer buf = new AttributedFormatBuffer();
formatWithAttribute((Date) date, buf, null);
buf.sync();
return new FormatCharacterIterator(
buf.getBuffer().toString(), buf.getRanges(), buf.getAttributes());
}
public StringBuffer format(Date date, StringBuffer buffer, FieldPosition pos) {
formatWithAttribute(date, new StringFormatBuffer(buffer), pos);
return buffer;
}