I am using hibernate-validator-5.2.4.Final.jar along with javax.Validation, it works fine if i dont mention the groups for a field in the bean to be validated.
@NotNull(message = "name required")
private String name;

but after mentioning the groups i am unable to validate any of the field .For example
@NotNull(message = "name required", groups = {MyJobGroup.class })
private String name;

The above behaviour is seen in OSGI environment(Karaf) , works well in standalone systems.
Kindly help.

What exactly DYM by "I'm unable to validate any of the field"? Do you get an exception of any kind? Or are you not seeing a constraint violation you're excepting?

In case of the latter, could you file an issue in our tracker (https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HV/summary)? The best would be to adapt our OSGi integration tests (https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate- ... rationtest) which are also based on Karaf.

Thanks,

--Gunnar