I notice that there are a few methods in Maverick for attaching error 
messages to fields, such as addError().  These are certainly very useful, 
_although_ I am now realizing why you have (wisely) chosen to not include 
them in the core distribution of maverick.  It must be because the messages 
are really part of the view and to have them embedded in the controller 
defeats the separation.

So, I'm struggling with what is the correct way to approach this 
problem...  One idea would be to embed the messages in the velocity 
template itself...  But that seems awkward.

And, really, the error messages are caught up with the concept of 
validation.  So maybe the idea would be to abstract out the validation and 
error messages together.  Perhaps there could be another xml file along 
side maverick.xml in which we specify the fields of each form, how they 
should be validated, and text messages.

I have seen that a bit of thinking has gone into this, such as Apache 
Common's validator package.  In particular, I was wondering how you view 
this problem.  Do you think that the MVC layer should handle 
validation?  Or is it a separate function?  In any case, I'd be interested 
in how you would approach this dilemma.

Thanks,
Dan


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