The following program should throw ParseException instead of StringIndexOutOfBoundsException.

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class selm{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat;
        Date date2;
        dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yy/mm/dd HH:mm:ss");
        try{
            date2 = dateFormat.parse("97/01/17");
            System.out.println(date2.toString());
        }
        catch(ParseException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}


java selm
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 8
        at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java)
        at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.parse(SimpleDateFormat.java)
        at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java)
        at selm.main(selm.java:10)