jFormChecker

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

Quickstart

Documentation

See changelog

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:

1. Define a form with every element in it

2. Let the central "FormChecker" class handle the validation and processing

3. 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