How to get start and end date of a year?

Question

I have to use the Java Date class for this problem (it interfaces with something out of my control).

How do I get the start and end date of a year and then

Answer 1

An improvement over Srini's answer.
Determine the last date of the year using Calendar.getActualMaximum.

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

calDate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1);
Date yearStartDate = calDate.getTime();

calDate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, calDate.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR));
Date yearEndDate = calDate.getTime();