Date Conversion in Gwt Java

import com.google.gwt.i18n.client.DateTimeFormat;

public static String gwt_Date_Conversion(Date date)
{
// date format Conversion from date to String of format(dd-MM-yyyy) like 05-01-2013
String reqdate="";
DateTimeFormat format=null;
try
{
format=DateTimeFormat.getFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
reqdate=format.format(date);
} catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("error "+e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
return reqdate;
}