Professional Java for Web Applications

Chapter 16Using JSR 349, Spring Framework, and Hibernate Validator for Bean Validation

IN THIS CHAPTER

• An Introduction to Bean Validation
• Configuring validation in the Spring Framework container
• Adding constraint validation annotations to your beans
• Configuring Spring beans for method validation
• Writing your own validation constraints
• Integrating validation in the Customer Support application

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

You can find the wrox.com code downloads for this chapter at http://www.wrox.com/go/projavaforwebapps on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:

• HR-Portal Project
• Custom-Constraints Project
• Customer-Support-v13 Project

NEW MAVEN DEPENDENCIES FOR THIS CHAPTER

In addition to the Maven dependencies introduced in previous chapters, you also need the following Maven dependencies:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
            <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.0.Final</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
 
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
            <version>5.1.0.Final</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.jboss.logging</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jboss-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
 
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jboss.logging</groupId>
            <artifactId>jboss-logging</artifactId>
            <version>3.2.0.GA</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>

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