I have added the following plural forms AssertFalses AssertTrues //Digits to be redefined Futures Maxs Mins NotNulls Nulls Pasts Patterns Sizes As you can see not all names are pretty. Any improvement proposal? Alternatively, we could define inner annotations to define the plural, ie @interface Max { String message() default "..."; Class groups() default {}; public static @interface Plural { Max[] value(); } } @Max.Plural( { @Max(30, groups=JoeSixPack.class), @Max(100, groups=PowerUser.class) } ) WDYT? _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:35:30 +0100, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > @Max.Plural( { > @Max(30, groups=JoeSixPack.class), > @Max(100, groups=PowerUser.class) > } ) +1 for this approach from me as well. Instead of Plural we could also consider Many or Multiple. --Hardy

List or Array or Many makes more sense than "Plural" which is really defined to mean "more than one" but I think in some cases you might just have a single element or none at all. For example, this would be valid I think: @Max.Array( { @Max(30, groups=JoeSixPack.class), } ) although I don't know why you'd use an Array if you had a single element but when you're coding things end up defined like this sometimes. _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev