Thanks Min! I think the comment about validating the DB entity was what confused me. Got it now.
- chip Sent from my iPhone. On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:39 AM, Min Chen <min.c...@citrix.com> wrote: > I think that it is the latter case. > > -min > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 12, 2012, at 9:32 PM, "Chip Childers" <chip.child...@sungard.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Fang Wang <fang.w...@citrix.com> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> In our current API refactoring work, we plan to add a validation annotation >>> to >>> Validate DB entity, validate some parameter range, etc. >>> We plan to add the @validate annotation to API commands. >> >> This might be a silly question, but why the command classes and not >> the Dao's? Is this to validate the database inputs? Or are we >> talking about cleaning up the API input validation logic? >> >> Thanks! >> >>> IT is suggested we could use Hibernate Validator. Anyone with experience >>> with >>> Hibernate validator, how we could deploy it here? >>> >>> 1. is there a version we should definitely use? >>> 2. Which option is better to integrate into our maven? Add it as dependency >>> or as a plugin? >>> 3. What is the latest version working with maven? >>> >>> Thanks for any input, >>> -Fang >
