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

[Brandon G. <ma...@ph...>]

I understand that. I'm simply saying... leave the choices on other websites
and focus on what spring is. Not on all the neat toys you can plug into it.
So, where do you draw the line on what does and does not get included. Why
not setup a directory of tools that can be used in spring instead of feeling
compelled to include support for every permutation into the distro or in the
spring cvs. Just cuz you can doesn't mean you should. I think moves like
this will cause confusion around spring not help it.

B

-----Original Message-----
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Seth Ladd
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 5:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] RE: commons-validator adapter

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


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