Validation using validator framework

Validation on a form using validation form

1)Create a new web application
2)Add struts capabilities
3)create new action,form and jsp
4)Add the following lines in Struts-config.xml

//This is for validator plug in

plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
set-property property="pathnames"
value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>

and in action tag ,add (validate="true") also.

6)Edit validation.xml

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
!DOCTYPE form-validation PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Commons Validator Rules Configuration 1.1.3//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1_3.dtd">

form-validation>
formset>
form name="loginform" >
field property="name" depends="required,minlength" >
arg0 key="err.name" />
arg1 key="${var:minlength}" name="minlength" resource="false" />
var>
var-name>minlength
var-value>3
/field>
field property="pass" depends="required" >
arg0 key="err.pass" />
/field>
/form>
/formset>
/form-validation>

7)Edit Form JSP

html:javascript formName="loginform"/>
html:form action="login" onsubmit="return validateLoginform(this)">

onsubmit return validateFormName(this).

8)Test your application

Thanks
deepak