Date format exception in spring

I am trying to pass date as an input from Chrome Rest Client but due to some reason API is throwing an exception, please have a look below :

Rest Client payload

{ "todoDT" : "17/12/2014" }

POJO class

public class MyCBO  extends DComponent {

    @DateTimeFormat(pattern="dd/mm/yyyy")
    private Date todoDT;

    public Date getTodoDT() {
        return todoDT;
    }
    public void setTodoDT(Date todoDT) {
        this.todoDT = todoDT;
    }
}

& the exception is

INFO: Exception occurred while handling request :{} org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException: Could not read JSON: Can not construct instance of java.util.Date from String value '01/01/2014': not a valid representation (error: Failed to parse Date value '01/01/2014': Can not parse date "01/01/2014": not compatible with any of standard forms ("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ", "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'", "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz", "yyyy-MM-dd"))