How to get list of months between two dates in Java

I am trying to get a list of months (actually the first days of those months) between two dates in Java but I am not getting the expected results.

The start date is “3/17/2020”, the end date “3/17/2021” and the expected result is as follows:

"01-Mar-2020"
"01-Apr-2020"
"01-May-2020"
"01-Jun-2020"
"01-Jul-2020"
"01-Aug-2020"
"01-Sep-2020"
"01-Oct-2020"
"01-Nov-2020"
"01-Dec-2020"
"01-Jan-2021"
"01-Feb-2021"
"01-Mar-2021"

Here below is the code I am using:

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;

public class Main {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       String date1 = "3/17/2020";
       String date2 = "3/17/2021";

    DateFormat formater = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");

    Calendar beginCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    Calendar finishCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();

    try {
        beginCalendar.setTime(formater.parse(date1));
        finishCalendar.setTime(formater.parse(date2));
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
  DateFormat formaterYd = new SimpleDateFormat("01-MMM-YYYY");


    while (beginCalendar.before(finishCalendar)) {
        // add one month to date per loop
        String date =    formaterYd.format(beginCalendar.getTime()).toUpperCase();
        System.out.println(date);
        beginCalendar.add(Calendar.MONTH, 1);
       }
   }
}

With the above code I am getting the following result:

"01-Jan-2020"
"01-Feb-2020"
"01-Mar-2020"
"01-Apr-2020"
"01-May-2020"
"01-Jun-2020"
"01-Jul-2020"
"01-Aug-2020"
"01-Sep-2020"
"01-Oct-2020"
"01-Nov-2020"
"01-Dec-2020"

Please help me understand the issue and suggest any solution for the same with java 7.

Answer

Java7 soulution:

public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
    DateFormat df1 = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy", Locale.US);
    Date dateFrom = df1.parse("3/17/2020");
    Date dateTo = df1.parse("3/17/2021");
    final Locale locale = Locale.US;

    DateFormat df2 = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM-yyyy", Locale.US);
    List<String> months = getListMonths(dateFrom, dateTo, locale, df2);

    for (String month : months)
        System.out.println(month.toUpperCase(locale));
}

public static List<String> getListMonths(Date dateFrom, Date dateTo, Locale locale, DateFormat df) {
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(locale);
    calendar.setTime(dateFrom);

    List<String> months = new ArrayList<>();

    while (calendar.getTime().getTime() <= dateTo.getTime()) {
        months.add(df.format(calendar.getTime()));
        calendar.add(Calendar.MONTH, 1);
    }

    return months;
}

Output:

MAR-2020
APR-2020
MAY-2020
JUN-2020
JUL-2020
AUG-2020
SEP-2020
OCT-2020
NOV-2020
DEC-2020
JAN-2021
FEB-2021
MAR-2021