Re: [Springframework-developer] Keep Spring Focused WAS: commons-validator adapter

[Peter d. H. <pe...@de...>]

The Spring core supports JDBC, iBatis, JDO and Hibernate data access
technology. It supports Hessian, Burlap, JAX-RPC and RMI remoting. I don't
think any of this has proved to be a problem. It supports JSP, Freemarker
and Velocity, and I can't remember anyone asking which was the "official"
spring view technology. Aren't we fighting windmills here?

I must admit that I find the Apache Commons validator an infuriating product
because it is pretty good in some ways and absolutely horrible in others,
and I would look forward to a clean, flexible and pluggable native Spring
solution. Until then it seems to me that a validator adapter fits entirely
into the Spring philosophy as it stands.

 - Peter