Major Description
Commons Validator 1.3, among many other improvements, brings to the table a rich set of vaidation/conversion features in the org.apache.commons.validator.routines package. Just as one example, integers can be validated against a Locale, and/or against a pattern string with locale-sensitive punctuation (i.e. using a "comma" separator and "period" decimal point for the US, or vice versa for European locales where the opposite convention is in place). In addition, the validation routines offer String to object conversion, as well as object to string formatting.
These features make it possible for Shale to provide a comprehensive set of JSF converters and validators, which will work off of the same underlying functionality, that substantially exceed the capabilities of the converters and validators provided as part of a JSF standard implementation. This ticket can be used to tag commits that work towards this end.