Forms, regular expressions and Java Plug-in

Here is a Java Bean that allows to use regular expression with the Sun Java Plug-in.

Regular expressions have been introduced in the Oracle database with the version 10g.
For those who still use a previous version, this Java Bean allows to use regular expressions to achieve complex validations in the Forms text items.
Because the java.util.regex package is available since the 1.4 version of the JDK, we cannot use it with JInitiator that uses the 1.3 instruction set. This is the reason why this Bean works only with the Sun Java Plug-in.

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