import java.text.ParseException;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import org.apache.commons.beanutils.Converter;

publicclass CustomerDateConverter implements Converter {

    private final static SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMATE_SHOW = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");//根据传来的时间字符串格式：例如：20130224201210

    public Object convert(Class type, Object value){

       // TODO Auto-generated method stub

       if (type.equals(java.util.Date.class) ) {

              try {

                  return DATE_FORMATE_SHOW.parse(value.toString());

              } catch (ParseException e) {

                  // TODO Auto-generated catch block

                  e.printStackTrace();

              }

       }

       return null;

    }

}

Address1 addr1=new Address1(); //Address1中的date是String

Address2 addr2=new Address2(); //Address1中的date是java.util.Date

Addr1.setDate("20130224201210");

//进行日期格式转换

 CustomerDateConverter dateConverter = new CustomerDateConverter ();

 ConvertUtils.register(dateConverter,Date.class);

//上面两句是关键！

BeanUtils.copyProperties(addr2, addr1);//进行复制