I have been trying the Java Persistence event-based validation:

• setting hibernate.validator.autoregister_listeners to false
• annotating my entity with @EntityListeners(JPAValidateListener.class)
• annotating the fields with validation restrictions

Simply it does not works. I mean, it does not validate my entity...
Have I forgotten any step?
Anybody has achieved to do it work fine?
Please, help. I'm lost!

Thanks.

How does your save/update code look like? Are you actually using the entity manager API or are you using the plain Hibernate Session API? If you are using the entity manager API it should work just fine.

Have a look at this test case from the Hibernate Validator code base: JPAValidateListenerTest

--Hardy

I'm using the Hibernate API to manage the session.

It's possible to use JPA validation over Hibernate session API?

I guess, that's explains it. The JPAValidateListener only works with the JPA approach. Sorry :(