java - design pattern for validations -

i developing project on spring+hibernate+annotations. need apply set of validations on data.

presently code seems this.

public class someclass{    boolean error = false;    if(!error){      check condition1       if(fails) {          error = true;      }   }    if(!error){      check condition2      if(fails) {          error = true;      }  }   if(!error){      check condition3      if(fails) {          error = true;      }  }    // have 5 10 validations. } 

is there design pattern can replace above scenario.

thanks.

spring offers validation classes, see org.springframework.validation
reference supplies full tutorial of way spring handles validation errors. http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/validation.html

on current project went bit further, crated validationtemplate class abstract. have 2 methods, validate method calls abstract method list<error>
when want validate can create anonymous instance of abstract class , implement doinvalidation method. allows to

new validationtemplate(){   doinvalidation(list<error> errors){     if(!condition) {        errors.add(new error("reason");     }   }.validate(); 

you can implement validation method want, throw exception or return list errors if want more elegant result.
unfortunately cannot post exact source instead of piece of pseudo code.