In My application i am pre-populating some datas from the Server. When i assign the data for the <rich:Calender> .I am not able to see the date in the UI.I am convert the string from the database to Date format. Kindly Help.

My JSF Code

 <a4j:outputPanel>
<rich:calendar id="myCalendar" popup="true" mode="client"
  preloadDateRangeBegin="#{item.date}" preloadDateRangeEnd="#{item.date}"
     value="#{item.date}" showApplyButton="true"
    cellWidth="24px"cellHeight="22px" style="width:200px">
</rich:calendar>
 </a4j:outputPanel>

Date Convertion I am Using

 DateFormat dateForm = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/YYYY");
    Date date = dateForm.parse(lastRunDate);