I think that it is the latter case. -min
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 12, 2012, at 9:32 PM, "Chip Childers" <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Fang Wang <fang.w...@citrix.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In our current API refactoring work, we plan to add a validation annotation >> to >> Validate DB entity, validate some parameter range, etc. >> We plan to add the @validate annotation to API commands. > > This might be a silly question, but why the command classes and not > the Dao's? Is this to validate the database inputs? Or are we > talking about cleaning up the API input validation logic? > > Thanks! > >> IT is suggested we could use Hibernate Validator. Anyone with experience >> with >> Hibernate validator, how we could deploy it here? >> >> 1. is there a version we should definitely use? >> 2. Which option is better to integrate into our maven? Add it as dependency >> or as a plugin? >> 3. What is the latest version working with maven? >> >> Thanks for any input, >> -Fang >> >>