JSF Under the Hood—Part 2 - JSF and HTML5 - page 85

■ Covering the complete features of JSr 303 is outside of the scope of this topic; you can read the complete
JSr 303 specification at http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303 .

Note

All of the validated fields in Listing 3-15 belong to the Default validation group of the Java Bean Validation
framework; however, you have the option to specify many validation groups for the same constraint. A validation
group is nothing more than a tag interface. Let's create two validation groups called ( LengthGroup ) and ( EmailGroup ).
LengthGroup will group the length constraints in Person managed bean ( @Size constraints), while EmailGroup will
include the e-mail constraint in Person managed bean ( @EmailAddress constraint). Then attach the validation groups
to the constraints as shown in Listing 3-19.

Listing 3-19. Validation Groups in Person Managed Bean

@ManagedBean
@RequestScoped
public class Person implements Serializable {
@Size(min = 4, max = 30, groups = LengthGroup.class)
private String name;
@Size(min = 12, max = 120, groups = LengthGroup.class)
private String address;
@Size(min = 5, max = 30, groups = LengthGroup.class)
@EmailAddress(groups = EmailGroup.class)
private String email;
public Person() {
}
public String subscribe() {
return null;
}

public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}

public String getAddress() {
return address;
}
public void setAddress(String address) {
this.address = address;
}