I am following the exact instructions of Chapter3 - Creating custom constraints of the Hibernate Validator JSR 303 Reference Implementation Guide to create a custom contraint in a Spring MVC web app
and I get the javax.validation.ConstraintDefinitionException: HV000074: web.utils.validator.Sin contains Constraint annotation, but does not contain a payload parameter.

STACK TRACE:
javax.validation.ConstraintDefinitionException: HV000074: web.utils.validator.Sin contains Constraint annotation, but does not contain a payload parameter.
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.core.ConstraintHelper.assertPayloadParameterExists(ConstraintHelper.java:346)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.core.ConstraintHelper.isConstraintAnnotation(ConstraintHelper.java:327)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.provider.AnnotationMetaDataProvider.findConstraintAnnotations(AnnotationMetaDataProvider.java:402)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.provider.AnnotationMetaDataProvider.findConstraints(AnnotationMetaDataProvider.java:366)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.provider.AnnotationMetaDataProvider.findPropertyMetaData(AnnotationMetaDataProvider.java:219)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.provider.AnnotationMetaDataProvider.getPropertyMetaData(AnnotationMetaDataProvider.java:213)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.provider.AnnotationMetaDataProvider.retrieveBeanConfiguration(AnnotationMetaDataProvider.java:126)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.provider.AnnotationMetaDataProvider.getBeanConfiguration(AnnotationMetaDataProvider.java:114)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.provider.AnnotationMetaDataProvider.getBeanConfigurationForHierarchy(AnnotationMetaDataProvider.java:96)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.BeanMetaDataManager.createBeanMetaData(BeanMetaDataManager.java:160)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.BeanMetaDataManager.getBeanMetaData(BeanMetaDataManager.java:128)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateInContext(ValidatorImpl.java:292)
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validate(ValidatorImpl.java:133)
at org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.SpringValidatorAdapter.validate(SpringValidatorAdapter.java:101)
at org.springframework.validation.DataBinder.validate(DataBinder.java:722)

Sin.java content is:

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.*;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.*;
import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import javax.validation.Constraint;
import javax.validation.Payload;

@Target({METHOD, FIELD, ANNOTATION_TYPE})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Constraint(validatedBy=SinValidator.class)
@Documented
public @interface Sin {
String message() default "{Sin.message}";
Class<?>[] groups() default {};
Class<? extends Payload>[] palyload() default {};
}

SinValidator.java is:
import javax.validation.ConstraintValidator;
import javax.validation.ConstraintValidatorContext;
public class SinValidator implements ConstraintValidator<Sin, String> {
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
private Sin constraintAnnotation;
@Override
public void initialize(Sin constraintAnnotation) {
this.constraintAnnotation = constraintAnnotation;
}
@Override
public boolean isValid(String sinNumber, ConstraintValidatorContext constraintContext) {
//it is recommended to return true for null values, to check for nulls use @NotNull
if (sinNumber == null) {
return true;
}
return checkSinAlgorithm(sinNumber);
}

The jars in web-inf/lib are:
aopalliance-1.0.jar
cglib-nodep-2.2.jar
hibernate-validator-4.3.0.Final.jar
hibernate-validator-annotation-processor-4.3.0.Final.jar
javax.inject-1.jar
jboss-logging-3.1.0.CR2.jar
jcl-over-slf4j-1.6.1.jar
jstl-1.2.jar
junit-4.7.jar
log4j-1.2.16.jar
org.springframework.aop-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.asm-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.beans-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.context-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.context.support-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.core-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.expression-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.test-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.transaction-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
org.springframework.web-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar
spring-security-acl-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-config-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-core-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-taglibs-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-web-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar
spring-webmvc-3.1.3.BUILD-20120707.183226-1.jar
validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar

Is there a problem somewhere? Thanks

There's a typo in the "payload" attribute of your constraint, you got "palyload" instead.

--Gunnar

OOOPPPSS! Oh my god, I can't believe I did it!
I tested and it is working fine.
Thank you very much my friend, god bless you!