Bean Validation with JSR-303 and Hibernate Validator
You want to add some validation logic to your Java beans? You want to achieve this with some shiny extendable annotations? Then give the Java Bean Validation standard aka JSR-303 a try.. We’re going to use the reference implementation for bean validation, Hibernate Validator in this tutorial but there are also links to other alternatives like Oval or Apache Bean Validation. So let’s begin and validate some stuff .. Prerequisites JDK >=6 Maven >=2 An IDE or text editor of choice ...