I downloaded hibernate-validator-4.0.2.GA to use as validator in a stand alone application. But it seems that some of the dependencies (hibernate-annotations.jar) is not avaliable as part of Validator zip. So i have included the annotations jar to my build path to import s below classes. Is it not part of the Validator component then ? please correct me if am wrong.

Hibernate Validator 4.x does not depend on annotations. The classes you mention are part of the legacy Validator code base (3.x). You should not use them. In Bean Validation (JSR 303) for which Hibernate Validator is the reference implementation the core validator class is javax.validation.Validator.

What are you trying to do? Are you converting an existing application which was using Validator 3.x?

--Hardy

Hi Hardy,
Thanks for the reply.

Basically i m trying to implement validator framework in my stand alone application. I have got beans which are loaded with the data from xml and this needs to be validated against the business rules.
Also i would like to externalize the validations in an xml , so that when requirement i dont need to change the annotations and recompile over.

The online examples which i have seen are using the below mentioned classes. can you please point good where i can get info how to use hibernate 4.x validation.

Thanks. perhaps i should have searched here..