[opencms-dev] Best Pratice: Form Validation in OpenCms

[Sebastian Himberger]

Hi list,

this isn't directly a question regarding an actual problem, but i'm 
interested how to "best" validate and handle forms in OpenCms(i know 
that there is never ONE best way, but perhaps a way that works good in 
most situations).

Do you develop beans with "isValid()"-methods or do you use a framework 
to validate form-data? Maybe Struts or the Validator classes from the 
Jakarta project? Do you use the OpenCms database classes to store the 
beans or some kind of DAO/OR-Mapping?

My current approach is to develop beans with an "isValid()"-method and a 
  Stack storing the errormessage keys. This keeps the form pages off 
from having too much JSP-Code, but i'm no JSP/OpenCms-expert so there 
are surely better way's to handle this. Another downside of my approach 
is that i have to care much about "null" strings within my forms and i 
don't want to do this in the bean.

I'm looking forward to your replys.

Regards
Sebastian Himberger