Question

I am trying to use validation with Spring 3.x.

I have annotated a method field with @Valid, added <mvc:annotation-driven/> to my common.xml, and added Hibernate-Validator.jar in the lib/ dir, but I keep getting this message: "Hibernate validator not found: ignoring".

Am I missing something?

  [Version:15] Hibernate Annotations 3.4.0.GA
  [Environment:543] Hibernate 3.3.0.SP1
  [Environment:576] hibernate.properties not found
  [Environment:709] Bytecode provider name : javassist
  [Environment:627] using JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling
  [Version:14] Hibernate Commons Annotations 3.1.0.GA
  [AnnotationConfiguration:369] Hibernate Validator not found: ignoring

Answer 1

At last, I found the answer at Spring ROO Issue Tracker

it is a bug in Hibernate that is
known to be corrected in Hibernate 3.5

I’ve this message too in my Spring project, but validation still works.