Весна вводит дату в свойство компонента – CustomDateEditor

package com.mkyong.common;

import java.util.Date;

public class Customer {

	Date date;

	public Date getDate() {
		return date;
	}

	public void setDate(Date date) {
		this.date = date;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Customer [date=" + date + "]";
	}

}

package com.mkyong.common;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class App {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
				"SpringBeans.xml");

		Customer cust = (Customer) context.getBean("customer");
		System.out.println(cust);
		
	}
}

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: 
	Failed to convert property value of type [java.lang.String] to 
	required type [java.util.Date] for property 'date'; 

nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 
	Cannot convert value of type [java.lang.String] to
	required type [java.util.Date] for property 'date': 
	no matching editors or conversion strategy found