Greetings all i am using two validation annotations on a property in the java bean

@NotEmpty(message = "{name.required}")
@Pattern(regex = "^([A-Za-z0-9]{2,}(\\-[a-zA-Z0-9])?)$", message = "{invalid.name}")
private String name;

if i left the name empty i got the two errors and i want only the first error message (if the first condition occurs show its error message then skip the second condition).

Hi,

that seems to be a case for @GroupSequence. Check the documentation for group sequences.
An alternative in your case would be to let the pattern also match the empty string. Something like this: "|^([A-Za-z0-9]{2,}(\\-[a-zA-Z0-9])?)$"

--Hardy