How to Convert MM/DD/YYYY format to YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS in Java

How to Convert MM/DD/YYYY format Date to DB Format which is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS  using Java

//Required Imports

import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

//Define outputDate variable
Timestamp outputDate = null;

 //input datestring in MM/DD/YYYY format 
String inputDate = "05/16/2013";

try
{     


//create a simpledateformat object to read the input date

 SimpleDateFormat fromDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");


//create one more simpledateformat object to write output date

 SimpleDateFormat toDBFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");


//Parse Input Date to Output format as a String

 String reformattedStr = toDBFormat.format(fromDate.parse(inputDate));


//Now Convert the string to Date

 Date parsedDate = toDBFormat.parse(reformattedStr);


//Now finally convert the Date to Timestamp format which is equivalent to MySQL Format

 transactionDate = new java.sql.Timestamp(parsedDate.getTime());

}catch(Exception e)
{

  e.printStackTrace();                        

}