It has been a bit silent here, so here’s a little update on what’s going on! As we all know, sometimes customer’s projects demand a little more time than one desires.

However in the spare hours there were, hard work’s been done for the JaValid 1.1 release. Not making any promises, but the release candidate is planned for this month! What it will include? Except for quite some refactoring, enhancements and so on: One of the major features included is integrating validation with your database! Stay tuned for a little preview coming weeks!

And as always, feedback is welcome!

JaValid 1.0.1 has been released. This release fixes some potential errors that may occur when using JSF 1.2/facelets in combinations with some JSF frameworks. The JSF specific code has been abstracted away, and depending on which JSF version in use picks the proper handler. You can download it here.

Have fun!

I am glad to announce that JaValid 1.0 production is released as of today. Download it here. Below this post you can read the release notes, so you can see what changed since the first rc1 up to now. If you have any feedback, bugs, feature requests and so on, please post them. So they can be picked up in one of the next releases. Thanks!

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Changes from 1.0-rc2 to 1.0
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BUGS fixed:

None.

FEATURES/ENHANCEMENTS:

1954319      Provide selective global message support
1955130	     Add BigInteger / BigDecimal support
1956675	     Add Collection size check annotation
  --         Refactored JvValidator to JavalidValidator (check custom annotations!)
  --         Added more examples

NOTES:

None.

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Changes from 1.0-rc1 to 1.0-rc2

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BUGS fixed:

1944076      Inheritance validation fails in some cases
1946399	     Cannot use core library directly, noclassdeffounderror

FEATURES/ENHANCEMENTS:
  --         Added a few more examples.

NOTES:

None.

A new example has been added to the examples page, which continues where the previous example about the LovConstraint left off. This example shows the dynamic features @LovConstraint can use, with BeanLookup and SpringLookup. Check it out here.

A new example has been added to the examples page, which shows how to use the powerful @LovConstraint annotation in JaValid. Check it out here.

The second release candidate has been released today. What changed since rc1:

Fixed:
1944076  	  Inheritance validation fails in some cases
1946399  	  Cannot use core library directly, noclassdeffounderror

Enhancement:
- Added a few more examples.

This release is intended as the last candidate before the final release. Please provide some feedback, thanks!

A new example has been added to the examples page, which shows how inheritance validation in JaValid is used. Check it out here.

I am pleased to announce that the JaValid site has gone live today together with a first release of the project 1.0-rc1. You can download the first major release from sourceforge, please check out the download section on this site.

The current release is fully functional and ready for use. On top of the validation core, JaValid provides integration with JSF, Facelets and Spring. The release has been given a ‘release candidate’ status as I’d love to hear some feedback first, maybe some unknown bugs found by you guys and so on; so these can be fixed if needed, before a final release is done.

Please note that the integration parts with JSF, have been tested against JSF 1.1 and JSF 1.2 releases of the Sun Reference Implementation. It is expected it will work fine against MyFaces as well (in fact it does so against MyFaces 1.1.5 in a production project).

Any feedback would be appreciated (you can use the comments of this blog, add them to the sourceforge facilities of the project…), have fun!