Formatting, removed validation for simplicity

build.gradle

@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ dependencies {
   compile 'org.springframework:spring-jdbc:3.0.6.RELEASE'
   compile 'cglib:cglib:2.2.2'
 
-  compile 'javax.validation:validation-api:1.0.0.GA'
-  compile 'org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:4.2.0.Final'
+  // json support
   compile 'org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:1.8.3'
 
   // slf4j so we can have some awesome logging

src/main/java/org/jamescarr/examples/Employee.java

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 package org.jamescarr.examples;
 
-import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotBlank;
-
 public class Employee {
-	@NotBlank private String firstName;
-	@NotBlank private String lastName;
+	private String firstName;
+	private String lastName;
 
 	public String getFirstName() {
 		return firstName;

src/main/java/org/jamescarr/examples/EmployeeController.java

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ public class EmployeeController {
 	public String index() {
 		return "/employee/index";
 	}
+
 	@RequestMapping(value = "/create", method = RequestMethod.POST)
 	public String create(Employee employee) {
 		employees.save(employee);