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

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

Peter den Haan wrote:
> 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.

Just wanted to put my support behind this statement.  To me, Spring's 
advantage is that it's engineered so well that many different 
implementations can plug into it.  It gives the developer (me) a choice. 
  Everything's behind a nice set of interfaces, and I have never felt 
that a technology is integrated poorly.

As long as a particular implementation doesn't impose its whim on the 
core Spring design, I will always welcome the amazing integration and 
choices offered by Spring.

Seth