How to get start and end date of a year?

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2014);
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1);    
Date start = cal.getTime();

//set date to last day of 2014
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2014);
cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, 11); // 11 = december
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 31); // new years eve

Date end = cal.getTime();

//Iterate through the two dates 
GregorianCalendar gcal = new GregorianCalendar();
gcal.setTime(start);
while (gcal.getTime().before(end)) {
    gcal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1);
    //Do Something ...
}

java.time

Using java.time library built into Java 8 and later. Specifically the LocalDate and TemporalAdjusters classes.

import java.time.LocalDate
import static java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters.firstDayOfYear
import static java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters.lastDayOfYear

LocalDate now = LocalDate.now(); // 2015-11-23
LocalDate firstDay = now.with(firstDayOfYear()); // 2015-01-01
LocalDate lastDay = now.with(lastDayOfYear()); // 2015-12-31

If you need to add time information, you may use any available LocalDate to LocalDateTime conversion like

lastDay.atStartOfDay(); // 2015-12-31T00:00