I'm using Hibernate Validator 3.1.0.GA. It is not looking up custom messages from ValidationMessages.properties. Here is the example project:

To illustrate the problem, I created several test cases:

One test case is failing with:

The field is annotated with:

And I got in src/main/resources/ValidationMessages.properties:

I also tried moving the property file around, but without any luck.
Any idea what is going wrong here?

Hi,

if you are using Hibernator Validator 3.x the properties file should be _ValidatorMessages.properties_ and not _ValidationMessages.properties_. By the way, is there a particular reason you are using 3.x? This code base is obsolete and there is no ongoing development in Validator 3. I highly recommend to switch to Validator 4.x (e.g. 4.3.0.Final) which implements the Bean Validation specification.

--Hardy

Indeed, after renaming the message bundle to ValidatorMessages.properties, everything is working as expected. Many thanks for spotting that!

Yes, it is a rather old version, but we are not in a project phase where replacing such a core library is a good idea. But if we have the opportunity, we will do so.