Automation Interface: Model Validation

[Uffe]

Hi!


I'm interested in coding up some model validation rules.

Has anyone got some sort of higher-level rule definition / model validation execution thingy which I could use to define a set of rules in XML or similar rather than hard-coding them in Java?

Cheers,


/Uffe

[Geert Bellekens]

Uffe,

I have some experience writing model validation tools, and I doubt this approach will bring you much benefit.
Usually modelling rules are rather complicated, and best expressed in a programming language.
Trying to express those in something like xml will probably give you more headaches then benefit.
Of course you have to make sure that the rule definitions are nicely separated from your visiting code so that you can easily add/change/remove rules without impacting the rest of the application.
(think visitor, strategy)

Geert