We're using Hibernate tools to generate our JPA entity classes based on an existing / legacy database with several tables. We'd like to use the the Hibernate Validator for validation through our application.

That said, is there a way to have Hibernate tools generate both the standard JPA annotations AND the Hibernate Validator annotations on the generated entity classes? (i.e. @NotNull, @Max(value=) etc.)

I would imagine I'm not the first person to want this, but I couldn't seem to find other discussions about this. Thanks

seam uses hibernate-tools to add validator annotations.

See the custom .ftl templates in seam-gen if you want to do the same without seam-gen

Thanks I will have a look at how they're doing it, appreciate it.

Just wanted to add that I also came across this post on the subject. Haven't tried it yet but found it helpful.

http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=964381&highlight=default+annotations