This morning I was browsing through the org.hibernate package in the HibernateExt CVS source tree where I saw the org.hibernate.validate framework. It looks like a great addition and it would save us many days of work if we could use it (we were embarking on a similar framework on top of Hibernate but it looks like we can skip it). I especially like the way some of the validations become SQL check constraints.

Is there any documentation on its use, estimate of availability, or any other information we might find useful? It's looks fairly straightforward to use but I didn't see any test cases testing the functionality yet (perhaps I missed it) so I wasn't sure what "state" the validation framework was in.

Any help would be appreciated.

My apologies everyone, I did find some test cases for the validation framework in the test folder (seems CVS somehow didn't pull it down the first time I did a fetch). The validation frameworks seems even nicer now that I see how it might be used. :-)

If anyone has any other documentation/information in addition to the test cases please point them out. I checked the Wiki and Forums (searches) already.

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annotations/reference/en/html_single/

Feedbacks welcome

Emmanuel, I read the validator docs a few days ago and they look great. I like the new validator framework in general -- short, sweet, and simple but takes care of the majority of validation.