For background and more details, I also posted this question at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/442 ... ialize-jav .

I'm trying to use hibernate-validator in an API gateway that is built with Maven. I'm trying to run my skeleton unit test, but it's failing with this:


I've verified that I have version "3.0.1-b08" of the Glassfish javax.el artifact, without the "api" variant. I've inspected the "mvn dependency:tree" output to verify this. I've inspected the jar file of that artifact to verify that it has the class in question. I've run the unit test with "-verbose:class", but I didn't see any obvious clues from that output, except for the fact that it never tries to load anything from that artifact.

I don't know how to move forward.

Never mind. I've resolved this. The solution suggested in the SO posting was correct, but I didn't notice that somehow my "javax.el" artifact in my local cache was corrupted. I simply deleted the artifact directory and rebuilt, and it worked fine.