*Validate and present validation results effectively*

I've released version 1.3 of the free JGoodies Validation,
a library that helps you validate user input in Swing apps
and that helps you report validation errors and warnings.

The 1.2 and 1.3 releases fix minor bugs but primarily
clean up the API. Unnecessary and deprecated methods
and interfaces have been removed. If you want to update
your Validation library version, you may choose 1.2 or 1.3
depending on the state of your transition to the most
recent API. Also, the FAQ is now available online.
Find more details in the RELEASE-NOTES.

Since version 1.1.1 the Validation tutorial demonstrates
how to improve the perceived valdation performance,
if a validator is slow, for example if it sends requests
to a server. I recommend to test drive the new Performance
example in the updated JGoodies Validation Demo 1.3!

The Validation library is licensed under the terms of
the BSD open source license and is available at no charge.
This library has been designed to work with different
architectures and programming flavors, and it works with
standard and custom components, containers, and models.
It just requires Java 1.4 or later.

The Validation library provides a flexible and powerful
data validation infrastructure, assists you in separating
validation concerns, includes advanced validation result
presentations, and the accompanying tutorial demonstrates
a whole bunch of input and validation techniques.

It is recommended to read the Validation presentation
at the JGoodies articles page. Since the accompanying
tutorial uses the JGoodies Binding, a basic understanding
of Swing models and data binding techniques will help.

For background information for some design decisions
and about the motivation for writing this library see
http://tinyurl.com/nvt23

The Validation library has been financed by customers
of the JGoodies Swing Suite and by the Sun desktop crew.
It is only with their money that I can provide, maintain,
and improve this library at no charge. If you save time
and money using the Validation, please help me finance
my Java desktop activities by licensing the commercial
JGoodies Swing Suite.

I hope the JGoodies Validation helps you implement your
input validation and validation result presentation.

Best regards,
Karsten Lentzsch

Project Home:
https://validation.dev.java.net/

Download (library, sources, docs, tutorial, tests):
https://validation.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList

Release Notes:
https://validation.dev.java.net/files/documents/1174/2228/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

FAQ:
https://validation.dev.java.net/faq.html

Demo Editions:
http://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/

Validation Presentation:
http://www.jgoodies.com/articles/

JGoodies Swing Suite:
http://www.jgoodies.com/products/index.html