Passing date to request param in Spring MVC

Use @DateTimeFormat("MMddyyyy")

public @ResponseBody List<RecordDisplay> getRecords(
@RequestParam(value="userID")  Long userID,
@RequestParam(value="fromDate")     @DateTimeFormat(pattern="MMddyyyy") Date fromDate,
@RequestParam(value="toDate")     @DateTimeFormat(pattern="MMddyyyy") Date toDate) {