<section role="NotInToc" id="rich_beanValidator">
   <title>
				&lt;
				rich:beanValidator
				&gt;
				<emphasis role="since">
         <superscript> available since <emphasis role="version">3.2.2</emphasis>
         </superscript>
      </emphasis>
   </title>
   <section>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>
              The<emphasis role="bold">
            <property>&lt;rich:beanValidator&gt;</property>
         </emphasis> component designed to provide validation using Hibernate model-based constraints.
        </para>
    </section>
   <section>
          <title>Key Features</title>
          <itemizedlist>
                <listitem>
            <para>Validation using Hibernate constraints</para>
         </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
    </section>
   <section>
                              <title>Details of Usage</title>

                              <para>Starting from 3.2.2 GA version Rich Faces provides support for model-based constraints defined using Hibernate Validator. 
                                    Thus it's possible to use Hibernate Validators the same as for Seam based applications.
                              </para>
                              <para>
                                    The <emphasis role="bold">
            <property>&lt;rich:beanValidator&gt;</property>
         </emphasis> component is defined in the same way as any JSF validator. 
                                    Look at the example below.
                              </para>
                          <programlisting role="XML"><![CDATA[<rich:panel>
      <f:facet name="header">
            <h:outputText value="#{validationBean.progressString}" id="progress"/>
      </f:facet>
      <h:panelGrid columns="3">
            <h:outputText value="Name:" />
            <h:inputText value="#{validationBean.name}" id="name">
                  <rich:beanValidator summary="Invalid name"/>
            </h:inputText>
            <rich:message for="name" />

            <h:outputText value="Email:" />
            <h:inputText value="#{validationBean.email}" id="email">
                  <rich:beanValidator summary="Invalid email"/>
            </h:inputText>
            <rich:message for="email" />
            
            <h:outputText value="Age:" />
            <h:inputText value="#{validationBean.age}" id="age">
                  <rich:beanValidator summary="Wrong age"/>
            </h:inputText>
            <rich:message for="age" />
            <f:facet name="footer">
                  <a4j:commandButton value="Submit" action="#{validationBean.success}" reRender="progress"/>
            </f:facet>
      </h:panelGrid>
</rich:panel>]]></programlisting>

                              <para>
                                    Please play close attention on the bean code that contains the constraints defined with Hibernate annotation which perform validation of the input data.
                              </para>

                              <programlisting role="JAVA"><![CDATA[

package org.richfaces.demo.validation;

import org.hibernate.validator.Email;
import org.hibernate.validator.Length;
import org.hibernate.validator.Max;
import org.hibernate.validator.Min;
import org.hibernate.validator.NotEmpty;
import org.hibernate.validator.NotNull;
import org.hibernate.validator.Pattern;

public class ValidationBean {

    private String progressString="Fill the form please";
    
    @NotEmpty
    @Pattern(regex=".*[^\\s].*", message="This string contain only spaces")
    @Length(min=3,max=12)
    private String name;
    @Email
    @NotEmpty
    private String email;
    
    @NotNull
    @Min(18)
    @Max(100)
    private Integer age;
    
    public ValidationBean() {
    }

    /* Corresponding Getters and Setters */
    
    public void success() {
        setProgressString(getProgressString() + "(Strored successfully)");
    }

    public String getProgressString() {
        return progressString;
    }

    public void setProgressString(String progressString) {
        this.progressString = progressString;
    }
}]]></programlisting>

                              <para>The following figure shows what happens if validation fails</para>

                              <figure>
                                        <title>
            <emphasis role="bold">
                                                  <property>&lt;rich:beanValidator&gt;</property>
                                                  </emphasis> usage</title>
                                        <mediaobject>
                                                  <imageobject>
                                                  <imagedata fileref="images/beanValidator1.png"/>
                                                  </imageobject>
                                        </mediaobject>
                              </figure>
                              <para>As you can see from the example that in order to validate the
                                                  <emphasis role="bold">
                                                  <property>&lt;rich:beanValidator&gt;</property>
                                        </emphasis> should be nested into a input JSF or RichFaces
                                        component. </para>

                              <para>The component has the only attribute - <emphasis>
                                                  <property>"summary"</property>
                                        </emphasis>which displays validation messages about
                                        validation errors.</para>
                    </section>
   <section>
      <title>Reference Data</title>
      <para>
         <ulink url="&tlddoc;rich/beanValidator.html">Table of 
							&lt;rich:beanValidator&gt; 
							 attributes</ulink>.
						</para>
      <table>
                    <title>Component Identification Parameters</title>

                    <tgroup cols="2">
                              <thead>
                                        <row>
                                                  <entry>Name</entry>

                                                  <entry>Value</entry>
                                        </row>
                              </thead>

                              <tbody>
                                        <row>
                                                  <entry>component-type</entry>

                                                  <entry>org.richfaces.beanValidator</entry>
                                        </row>

                                        <row>
                                                  <entry>component-class</entry>

                                                  <entry>org.richfaces.component.html.HtmlbeanValidator</entry>
                                        </row>

                                        <row>
                                                  <entry>component-family</entry>

                                                  <entry>org.richfaces.beanValidator</entry>
                                        </row>

                                        <row>
                                                  <entry>renderer-type</entry>

                                                  <entry>org.richfaces.beanValidatorRenderer</entry>
                                        </row>

                                        <row>
                                                  <entry>tag-class</entry>

                                                  <entry>org.richfaces.taglib.beanValidatorTag</entry>
                                        </row>
                              </tbody>
                    </tgroup>
          </table>
   </section>
   <section>
                    <title>Relevant Resources Links</title>
                    <para>
         <ulink url="http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/beanValidator.jsf?c=beanValidator">
                              On RichFaces LiveDemo page </ulink> you can see an example of <emphasis role="bold">
            <property>&lt;rich:beanValidator&gt;</property>
                              </emphasis> usage and sources for the given example. </para>
          </section>
</section>