Beginner... stuck on how to use FormattedFields in java for inserting dates

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Java

Swing

DateTime

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I know the below code is supposed to format the FormattedTextField but it doesn't seem to do anything to the form (shown in the picture below). I was wanting, when the form loaded: the text field to look something like this

00/00/2014 - 00:00 am


Where the user is able to

- enter datelike information around the symbol separators ( / or : )

- But where the user could not remove these symbol separators

Code:

  package datefield;
    
    import javax.swing.JFormattedTextField;
    import javax.swing.text.DateFormatter;
    
    
    public class NewJFrame extends javax.swing.JFrame {
        
        public NewJFrame() {
            initComponents();
            formattedTextField();
        }

public void formattedTextField()
   {
        jFormattedTextField1 = new JFormattedTextField(new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy - mm:HH"));
        jFormattedTextField1.setValue(new Date());
        add(jFormattedTextField1);
   }

Screenshot:

<img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/sO3em.png">