[ews.eclipse.technology.aspectj] Re: Trying to pick up annotations on ar

[dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dan Haywood)]

Hi Barry,

Yes, I was aware of Hibernate validator, but like you I haven't used it.  
Here's the bit from the page you referenced that I think applies:

ClassValidator personValidator = new ClassValidator( Person.class );
InvalidValue[] validationMessages = 
personValidator.getInvalidValues(person);

where Person would be annotated similarly to my example.  

But this isn't quite the same as what I was doing, because it requires the 
client of the (person) object to ask a 3rd party (personValidator) if it 
is valid before interacting with it.  

I suspect at the end of the day they are doing similar things to mine in 
terms of reflection etc.

Cheers
Dan