On Saturday 28 March 2009 20:42:32 Musachy Barroso wrote: > I wanted to get some discussion going on the possibility of using a > third party framework for validation, and deprecating XWork's one in > the future. If there is a good library, well documented and powerful, > which does all we need, I don't really see the point in maintaining > our own implementation. Thoughts? > > //look mom, I am tryin' to deprecate more code! > > musachy >
Advantages - 1. Most likely less code for us to maintain 2. Oval implements the closest thing to a validation standard for beans in java that I know of 3. Possibly reducing the training curve of new developers adopting struts 4. Being abstracted to a plugin allows for future enhancement via dropping in other validation implementations Disadvantage - - We don't own Oval and will not have much say in its future. I would say that if using OGNL should have taught us anything is that if we want to use it as a dependency, we should volunteer on that side of things so that we can make sure it is maintained in the future (probably not a problem with Oval, but wouldn't hurt). Despite listing a disadvantage, I'm still +1 on this. I think users will likely welcome the added features of validation through Oval. -Wes -- Wes Wannemacher Author - Struts 2 In Practice Includes coverage of Struts 2.1, Spring, JPA, JQuery, Sitemesh and more http://www.manning.com/wannemacher --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
