JarCastingjFormChecker
HTML Forms in Java made easy.
Please be aware, that this project will not be maintained by me any longer.
I created a successor which is far better:
https://github.com/jochen777/jWebForm
and: https://github.com/jochen777/jWebForm/blob/master/doc/jformchecker_compare.md
Overview
The form-handling support in current java MVC frameworks is very basic. jFormChecker tries to fill this gap by providing these features:
- central form-definition for reuse and separation of concerns
- handling the request-response loop for forms
- handling error-messages and error-highlighting of the label
- correct tab-order
- pre-fillments of form-elements
- automatically syntactical correct HTML (5) with label and "label-for"
- pre-fillments of user-input after submit
- max-lenght constraint on every element to avoid security issues
- easy validation, easy custom validation
- all standard form fields and more (date-input)
- very compact output in sourcecode
- prebuild Bootstrap Styles
- prebuild ajax handling
- avoiding a lot of boilerplate code
- translateable error-messages.
- minimal dependencies!
jFormChecker is for java what Symfony-Forms is for PHP or Rose::HTML for Perl.
See this project for integration into servlet-based frameworks:
https://github.com/jochen777/jformchecker-integration
The jFormChecker way
The concept is simple:
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Define a form with every element in it
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Let the central "FormChecker" class handle the validation and processing
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use a simple tag in the output
Maven Dependency
...
<dependency>
<groupId>de.cyclon-softworx</groupId>
<artifactId>jformchecker</artifactId>
<version>0.1.16</version> <!-- check on maven central for the latest version -->
</dependency>
...
Thanks
Thanks to Arman Sharif for his work on jreform.sourceforge.net and the great Critera Classes