ok naturally I stumbled over my own solution not 5 mins after posting this.
The solution was to change the bean-validator method to return true
public boolean getAcceptsNull() {
return true; // was false
}
The giveaway was when I actually typed something in and then got the
validation
A bit of validation grief here (Tapestry 4.0.2), I hope someone can help or
provide an example of their own of this (besides the one in Kent Tongs
book).
I'm trying to create a custom validator that grabs maxLength and required
info from the data model. The "Bean" I define as the validator takes
