validation

Recently, I tried to help a teammate design a WSDL file. I gently drove him toward separating the interface itself in the WSDL file and domain objects in a XML Schema file. One thing leading to another, I also made him split this XSD into two separate files, one including another for design purposes. Alas, tests were already present, and they failed miserably after my refactoring, complaining about a type in the included file not being found. The situation was extremely unpleasant, not only becau

In this article, I will show you how to use the new Bean Validation Framework aka JSR-303. The legacy Before getting the result that is JSR 303, aka the Bean Validation framework, there were two interesting attempts at validation framework. Each came from an end of the layers and focused on its scope. Front-end validation Struts was the framework to learn and use on the presentation layer in 2001-2002. Struts uses the MVC model and focus on Controllers, which are represented in Struts with

In this article, I will describe a useful but much underused feature of Spring, the definition of custom tags in the Spring beans definition files.