[jboss-dev-forums] [JCA Development] - moving validate capability to metadata

Stefano Maestri [http://community.jboss.org/people/maeste] created the discussion "moving validate capability to metadata" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/553037#553037 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi guys, during re-design of our metadata I've seen validate methods in current org.jboss.jca.common.metadata.Metadata. This class isn't at the moment a metadata itself, but it'd more or less a metadataFactory where this utility methods have been added. I think we can move validate capability into metadatas itself, adding to our new JCAMetadata interface the method "public void validate() throws ValidateException". Moreover we can change, during this refactoring, a bit the validation control flow, adding intead of the previous proposed above to JCAMetadata the method: "public ValidationStatus validate();" where ValidationStatus is a simple pojo with 2 member: boolean valid; List<String> validationErrors; In practice I'm saying to move validation strategies as closer as possible to the object to validate and don't use exception to control the flow. If you'll agree I'll open a Jira linked to JBJCA-385 and I'll take care of this one too. bye S. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/553037#553037] Start a new discussion in JCA Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]