Sure, here's a Java program that converts a string to a date:

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

public class StringToDateConverter {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String strDate = "2023-02-16";
        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        Date date = null;
        try {
            date = dateFormat.parse(strDate);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        System.out.println(date);
    }
}

In this program, we first create a string representation of the date we want to convert. We then create a DateFormat object using the SimpleDateFormat class, which specifies the format of the string. In this case, the format is "yyyy-MM-dd", which corresponds to the year, month, and day separated by hyphens.

We then use the parse method of the DateFormat object to convert the string to a Date object. The parse method can throw a ParseException if the string cannot be parsed, so we enclose this call in a try-catch block.

Finally, we print out the Date object to confirm that the conversion was successful.