reliable way to validate IBAN/BIC in java [closed]

Question

Does anyone know of a reliable way to validate International Bank Account Number (IBAN) and Bank Identifier Code (BIC) in java?

Mcvay

Rephrased the original question. I'm no longer using the dreadful word "library", which caused the question to be closed as off-topic – Mcvay

Answer 1

These might be worth a look:

http://soastation.googlepages.com/iban-checkdigit-src.jar

http://developers.sun.com/docs/javacaps/designing/capsswftintprj.ghfyv.html

Kaenel

Brandon, your first link works fine (just downloads a jar file with no copyright etc, is this what you intended?) The second link though, is broken. Looks like Oracle doesn't like it much. – Desexualize

Answer 2

Apache Commons Validator has IBAN validation (since version 1.4)

Home page: http://commons.apache.org/validator/

Javadoc: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/apidocs/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/checkdigit/IBANCheckDigit.html

Maven dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
  <artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
  <version>1.7</version>
</dependency>

Edit: Updated javadoc link.

Fibula

The correct link to the javadoc is:commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/javadocs/api-1.4.0/… – Poulter

Answer 3

Apache Commons Validator is good for IBAN validation, but lacks BBAN structure validation (as specified in IBAN registry).

I have just released a library, named jbanking, that might suits your need. It contains routines for both IBAN and BIC validation. You can find it on github (https://github.com/marcwrobel/jbanking).

But note that you cannot have a reliable BIC / IBAN validation without using the IBAN Plus Directory (formely known as the BICplusIBAN Directory) and the Bank directory Plus (formely known as the BIC directory). Both are provided and regularly updated by SWIFT which is the BIC / IBAN registrar. Unfortunately those directories are not available for free.

Puentes

Answer 4

iban4j might be good choice for IBAN validation.

home page: https://github.com/arturmkrtchyan/iban4j

Maven dependency:

<dependency>
      <groupId>org.iban4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>iban4j</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Taimi

Hello, I just reviewed and finally decided to use your library. Nice work and simple API. Many thanks for sharing! – Perse

what should be my motivation NOT to use Apache IBAN Validator, if I only want to validate IBAN? – Chrysarobin

Above library is outdated, another alternative is github.com/barend/java-iban – Dietetics

Answer 5

This is a library of utilities to assist with developing banking functionality. https://github.com/marcwrobel/jbanking

Maratha

Answer 6

This library provides an IBAN class supporting BBAN structure validation.

http://www.jdtaus.org/ISO-13616/current/index.html

Pleat