Hi,

i am curious about the usage of the meta data available through Hibernate annotations without using Hibernate itself.

Most classes (the annotations) in org.hibernate.validation are not dependent on anything in Hibernate, unfortunately ClassValidator is dependant on a view Hibernate/Apache Logging classes.

My goal is to combine the meta data of Hibernate validation with the visual feedback from JGoodies (http://www.jgoodies.com/) in my smart client framework CUF (http://cuf.sourceforge.net).

For obvious reasons i am a bit reluctant to introduce a lot of dependency for the validation visualisation, so my question is:

Would it be possible to split the current code of org.hibernate.validator.ClassValidator in a class BasicClassValidator (that has no Hibernate/commons logging dependancy) and a super class ClassValidator (same as today)?


Bye,

Jürgen

Send a proposal and I'll look at it.