How do I calculate someone's age in Java?

Question

I want to return an age in years as an int in a Java method. What I have now is the following where getBirthDate() returns a Date object (with the birth date ;-)):

Answer 1

The correct answer using JodaTime is:

public int getAge() {
    Years years = Years.yearsBetween(new LocalDate(getBirthDate()), new LocalDate());
    return years.getYears();
}

You could even shorten it into one line if you like. I copied the idea from BrianAgnew's answer, but I believe this is more correct as you see from the comments there (and it answers the question exactly).