Support bean binding and validation

[thboileau]

Initial ticket : http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=713

[jlouvel]

See reference implementation:
http://www.hibernate.org/subprojects/validator

[jlouvel]

From original ticket:

Reported by Matt: "The one down side my co-workers see is the lack of binding url params to some kind of bean element (like Struts, spring mvc etc) and that we would have to write our own."

We should investigate and see how this can be improved.

• Spring MVC
• See related ticket 221 : "Improve parameter validation"
• See JSR-303: Bean Validation

We should look into making this easier, leveraging the ConverterService probably. The idea would be to convert a Web Form into a POJO/JavaBean automatically.

See related thread:
http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2431861