How to convert string date to Timestamp in java?

You can convert String to Timestamp:

String inDate = "01-01-1990"
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(((java.util.Date)df.parse(inDate)).getTime());

tl;dr

java.sql.Timestamp                  
.valueOf(                           // Class-method parses SQL-style formatted date-time strings.
    "2007-11-11 12:13:14"
)                                   // Returns a `Timestamp` object.
.toInstant()                        // Converts from terrible legacy classes to modern *java.time* class.

java.sql.Timestamp.valueOf parses SQL format

If you can use the full four digits for the year, your input string of 2007-11-11 12:13:14 would be in standard SQL format assuming this value is meant to be in UTC time zone.

The java.sql.Timestamp class has a valueOf method to directly parse such strings.

String input = "2007-11-11 12:13:14" ;
java.sql.Timestamp ts = java.sql.Timestamp.valueOf( input ) ;

java.time

In Java 8 and later, the java.time framework makes it easier to verify the results. The j.s.Timestamp class has a nasty habit of implicitly applying your JVM’s current default timestamp when generating a string representation via its toString method. In contrast, the java.time classes by default use the standard ISO 8601 formats.

System.out.println( "Output: " + ts.toInstant().toString() );

You can even try this.

   String date="09/08/1980";    // take a string  date
    Timestamp ts=null;  //declare timestamp
    Date d=new Date(date); // Intialize date with the string date
    if(d!=null){  // simple null check
        ts=new java.sql.Timestamp(d.getTime()); // convert gettime from date and assign it to your timestamp.
    }

All you need to do is change the string within the java.text.SimpleDateFormat constructor to: "MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss".

Just use the appropriate letters to build the above string to match your input date.