Re: [Springframework-developer] RE: commons-validator adapter

[Seth L. <se...@eh...>]

Brandon Goodin wrote:
> commons validator? gack! Don't pollute spring with all of this crap. I 
> don't want to see spring turn into the 8000 pound gorilla that struts 
> has. Please consider making this stuff peripheral.


A nice aspect of Spring is that it attempts to give developers different 
choices for a particular task.  For validation, commons-validator is 
just one choice.  Other choices include metadata validator or 
programmatic validation.  IMHO, the commons-validator fills a nice 
niche: when you want to do declarative validation but can't mark up the 
source code (if, for example, you're using generated source or 3rd party 
classes).

With Spring, you get to Pick and Choose!
Seth