How to compare web service date to calendar date in Android?

My web service response comes in this format: 19/2/2011. I want to compare this web service date to my own calendar date.

Is there any answer and how to highligh开发者_StackOverflow社区t that date?

final Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {

        @Override
        public void run() {
             parseData();
        }
    });
t.start();

Thread t1 = new Thread(new Runnable() {

        @Override
        public void run() {
            try {
                t.join();
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            //Split strings here and check them 
        }
    });
t1.start(); 

If you have both the date in strings you can break it up into day, time , year token and then can compare the strings....this will be a easy and raw approach to do this