Introduction

Organic growth is so...well...natural!

Crank is an open source project providing both a generic validation framework, and code generation facilities for the JSF/Spring/Hibernate stack, which is very popular in corporate America today.

Working Features Of Validation Framework

Mostly what works is the annotation driven validation.

• Java 5 annotations
• Allows for multiple sources of Validation meta-data (Annotation, Property files)
• You can pick one or use more than one at a time
• Annotation and Property file is supported
• JSF Integration via JSF Validation integrtation
• Spring MVC/Spring Webflow Integration via Spring Validator
• Can Generate JavaScript based on Validation metadata
• Can make Ajax calls based on Validation metadata
• Easy to integrate with existing annotation driven frameworks

Working Features Of CRUD Framework

• JPA DAO object
• You can define finder methods using no Java code (AOP enabled)
• A lightweight Detached Criteria API that uses POJOs
• An easy to use Detached Criteria DSL (domain specific language) that makes using the Criteria API a breeze.

Details

TODO describe goals and status of krank.

release