I am new to Spring MVC - and I am trying to pass a date from my javascript as a request Param

My controller looks something like - 

public @ResponseBody List<RecordDisplay> getRecords(
            @RequestParam(value="userID") Long userID,
            @RequestParam(value="fromDate") Date fromDate,
            @RequestParam(value="toDate") Date toDate) {

The question I have is how do I make the call from javascript - as in what should the URL look like 

for eg. - /getRecords?userID=1&fromDate=06022013&toDate=08022013'

Do I need a way to parse the date so Spring can recognize it?

java spring spring-mvc
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