>I know the business rules should not be in the from (like we used to do), and that they should not be in the database either, so you don't become locked to a particular database.
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>I understand that the recommended place to do validation is in the business object. That still leaves open the question of where should the actual validation procedures reside. Adding methods to the business object for each rule is a rather cumbersome way to do it.
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>The question is: Does anybody here use a table to store validation procedures? The business object would still look up the record in that table, run the validation procedure and return the answer.
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>TIA.
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>Alex

Table or XML file... then you could add or enhance either without having to rebuild any files.