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On Oct 31, 2012, at 5:27 PM, cowwoc <cowwoc_at_bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
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>    Out of curiosity, what's the benefit of using Dropwizard as opposed to using the various technologies they mention by ourselves? I like most of what's inside, but as soon as they start talking about YAML configuration files, JDBI and Freemarker we go our separate ways :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Gili
> 
> On 31/10/2012 8:10 PM, Tatu Saloranta wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Marek Potociar
>> <marek.potociar_at_oracle.com> wrote:
>>> The recommended way how to validate objects in Java in general is to use standard Bean Validation APIs. Unfortunately, neither Jersey nor JAX-RS provides a BV integration at the moment, so you may need to invoke the BV Validator manually yourself. At least for now. There are some plans to add BV support to JAX-RS, but nothing is fleshed out at the moment.
>> In the meantime, I'd strongly suggest a look at:
>> 
>> http://dropwizard.codahale.com/
>> 
>> which already nicely integrates Bean Validation & Jersey. And in case
>> JAX-RS would in future open up extension points to do the same, I'm
>> sure DW could easily wire things using that.
>> 
>> In case of DW, one then just annotates request POJOs with Bean
>> Validation annotations and things "just work".
>> Similar to JAX-RS databinding.
>> And this can be used not just for data but also service configuration,
>> which is totally awesome.
>> 
>> -+ Tatu +-
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