+1 The framework has been used in production applications, and has proven useful. It is already under the ASL, and in a Jakarta CVS, so it's just a matter of moving the package over, as was done with BeanUtils, Collections, and the Digester.
David has been an active Struts committer for some time, and so breveting him as a Commons committer is easy enough. David Winterfeldt wrote: > > This validation framework was made to work with Struts > originally, but it will work on any JavaBean. So in > some discussions we thought that it might be nice if > it was in commons so more people would know about it > and can use it. Also there could be more examples of > making it work with other frameworks than Struts. > Here is a brief description of the project and the > link to the site where it is posted (which has > documenation posted on it). > > The Validation Framework was made to work with Struts > although it can be used to perform validation on any > JavaBean (by using the Validator class). It can > perform basic validations to check if a field is > required, matches a regular expression, email, credit > card, and server side type checking and date > validation. Different validation rules can be defined > for different locales. The framework has basic support > for user defined constants which can be used in some > field attributes. The validation routines are > modifiable in the validation.xml file so custom > validation routines can be created and added to the > framework. JavaScript can be auto-generated that > matches the server side validation. The current tag > (JavascriptValidatorTag) relies on Struts, but could > be abstracted to generate Javascript for other > frameworks. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~dwinterfeldt/ > > Validating Outside of Struts > http://home.earthlink.net/~dwinterfeldt/overview.html#validatingOutsideOfStruts > > Let me know if there are any questions. > > David Winterfeldt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
