Below you will find the JavaScript / ECMAScript code which will convert JD Edwards Julian Dates to Java dates. The output format can be tweaked to your liking.

// According to the Oracle doc for JDE it’s C + YY + DDD
// C = Century 0 = 19, 1 = 20

// 097065  1997 and the 65th day of the year.
// 071138   138th day of 1971 = MM 05 / DD 19 / 1971

importClass(java.text.SimpleDateFormat);

var varMyDate = "71069";
print ("JDE Date: " + varMyDate);

var varParsedDate = parseString(varMyDate);
print ("Out Date: " + varParsedDate);

function parseString(varString)
{
    if (varString.length == 5)
    {
        varString = 0 + varString;
    }

    if (varString.length != 6) return;

    var varCentury = varString.substring(0,1);
    var varYear = varString.substring(1,3);
    var varDay = varString.substring(3,6);

    varYear = +varCentury + +19 + varYear;

//  print (varCentury);
//  print (varYear);
//  print (varDay);

    return dateFromDay(varYear, varDay);
}

function dateFromDay(year, day)
{
    pattern = "yyyyMMdd";
    format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
    var varDate = new Date(year, 0);
    var varTempDate = new Date(varDate.setDate(day));
    return format.format(varDate);
}

The code handles leap year conversion, as the following examples show.

Kekes-MacBook-Pro:Downloads karmst$ rhino -f jimbo.js
JDE Date: 104138
Out Date: 20040517

Kekes-MacBook-Pro:Downloads karmst$ rhino -f jimbo.js
JDE Date: 071069
Out Date: 19710310