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When creating a rule in guided editor and adding the date-effective attribute users can enter an invalid date format and no error or warning are shown. This is bad because after saving the rule and trying to build the package package building fails simply with: 
"	
Sorry, a technical error occurred. Please contact a system administrator."

and in the logs the exception thrown is:

[Mon Aug  2 00:00:00 2010] it should follow: [dd-MMM-yyyy]
2010-06-25 00:23:47,020 ERROR [STDERR] 	at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.encodeResponseForFailure(RPC.java:360)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,020 ERROR [STDERR] 	at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:546)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,021 ERROR [STDERR] 	at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processCall(RemoteServiceServlet.java:164)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,021 ERROR [STDERR] 	at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.doPost(RemoteServiceServlet.java:86)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.jboss.seam.web.ContextFilter$1.process(ContextFilter.java:42)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.jboss.seam.servlet.ContextualHttpServletRequest.run(ContextualHttpServletRequest.java:53)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.jboss.seam.web.ContextFilter.doFilter(ContextFilter.java:37)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,022 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:173)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:182)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,023 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:241)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,024 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,024 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,024 ERROR [STDERR] 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,024 ERROR [STDERR] 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)
2010-06-25 00:23:47,024 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid date input format: [Mon Aug  2 00:00:00 2010] it should follow: [dd-MMM-yyyy]

We should put date format restrictions here or best thing is just to use a calendar widget IMO which would eliminate cut/paste or user typos.