I am using Hibernate JPA 2 (hibernate-entitymanager-3.5.5) and hibernate-validator-4.1.0 with constraint annotations and I am able to get a set of ConstraintViolation objects on an @Entity when I use the Validator.validate() but when I persist() the same entity no ConstraintViolationException is thrown.

I have specified the following in persistence.xml:



My understanding was that the validation listener on entity management with such a configuration is automatic but maybe I am missing something.

I also use Spring 3 and Java 5.

Regards,

Laurent

Sorry folks don't burn gas on this one. I spent half a day trying to get this to work and just when I was about to give up, things started to fall into place. Not sure what fixed things but I recompiled a dependency and cleaned up the classpath and now I get the expected behavior.

A bit frustrating but I am glad that things actually work as documented after all.