Custom Validation

[kpullin75]

Excuse the newbie question...My company builds online apps that allow people to apply for credit cards online.  We have a lot of custom validation rules such as - If the user's income is greater than 50,000 then make them enter a value in Field X or If they live in a Florida, then they must fill out section 7. 

Is there a preferred approach to writing custom validation rules with Seam?  I thought I saw someone mention writing a custom annotation that would execute another class that had the rules in it.  Just wondering if there is a preferred approach.

Thanks

[pmuir]

Currently the recommended approach to doing dependant validation is to do it in your action method. There is no easy way to do this using Hibernate Validator and <s:validate>

[tom_goring]

Hi,

Is the any simple way of having page level validation within a pageflow?

E.g.

<start-page name="Start" view-id="/start.xhtml">
     <redirect/>
           <transition name="next" to="part2">
</start-page>

I.e. on pressing next all my field level validators are called OK but I'd like one for the page to be called before allowing the next page.

Thanks

Tom