Spring-MVC: Calling a Validator, not from within a Controller

Question

I would like to call a Validator on some object, but not from within a Controller, and then get the Error object.

Could you provide a code sample for this?

Answer 1

Spring's docs show how to use Validator without a Controller in sight:

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/validation.html

Been possible since the beginning. It's commonly used in Controllers and the web tier, but that's not required. There's no dependency on the web tier in the validator framework.