My solution :
I did a class MyValidator with two methods (verifyMethod and validateRequired) ------- private static boolean verifyMethod( Object bean, ValidatorAction va, Field field, ActionErrors errors, HttpServletRequest request) { String methodRequest = request.getParameter("method"); String methodsToValidate = field.getVarValue("method"); boolean validate = false; if ((methodsToValidate != null) && (methodsToValidate.length() > 0)) { if (methodRequest != null) { if (methodsToValidate != null) { StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(methodsToValidate, ","); String method = " "; while (st.hasMoreElements()) { method = (String) st.nextToken(); if (method.equals(methodRequest)) { validate = true; break; } } } } } return validate; } public static boolean validateRequired( Object bean, ValidatorAction va, Field field, ActionErrors errors, HttpServletRequest request) { if (verifyMethod(bean,va,field,errors,request)) return StrutsValidator.validateRequired(bean,va,field,errors,request); else return false; } ---------- In the file validaion-rules.xml I changed the validator required like this: <validator name="required" classname="MyValidator" method="validateRequired" ........... </validator> Now , I can configure in the validator.xml the methods that I want to validate. For example : <form name="logonForm"> <field property="userId" depends="required"> <arg0 key="logonForm.email.displayname"/> <var> <var-name>method</var-name> <var-value>update,delete</var-value> </var> </field> </form> David, What do you think about this solution ? Thanks, William. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>