non-localized decimal separator

hi I'm having trouble submitting doubles in Struts 2.1.8. I want to use the period as decimal separator regardless of locale (here in Italy we use the comma, but the key in the numeric keypad is mapped to the period - go figure). on a machine set to en_US it works fine, on one with it_IT it just

calling Struts2 XML validation manually on arbitrary bean

hi I have a fairly complex set of xml validation rules for a large form, which is working fine. I now have to load from db a bean with the same data and validate it before displaying a page (the data comes from a different source and could be incomplete). is it possible to call the same logic m