If you do not find a way with the SDF you could use a regular expression
and use Calendar to set individual fields.

Regards

    robert

This seems to work.  Can you please post a SSCCE?

import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.text.ParsePosition;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {

    private static PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(System.out, true);

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String string = "01Feb06";
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMMyy");
        ParsePosition index = new ParsePosition(0);
        Date date = format.parse(string, index);

        /* Prints "Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2006" */
        out.println(date);

    }

}

Hi Denzel.  This is actually quite straightforward using
SimpleDateFormat.  You just need to make sure you use

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class Test {

   public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {

       // set up a test string
       String testDate = "02Nov06";

       // create SimpleDateFormat object based on test string
       SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMMyy");

       // display the parsed results.
       System.out.println("\"" + testDate + "\" parses to \"" +
format.parse(testDate) + "\"");
   }
}

OUTPUT:

"02Nov06" parses to "Thu Nov 02 00:00:00 PST 2006"

Process finished with exit code 0

You have already seen a couple of answers saying that:

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMMyy");

work.

And it does - if the month abbreviations being parsed and
the locale settings on your PC match or if the month you are
testing on happens to be the same in the two locales.

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMMyy", Locale.ENGLISH);

then you will parse English month abbreviations independent
of your PC settings.

Arne