Hi, Michael. Note that the latest release of Apache BVal currently implements v1.0 of the BV specification and thus that JEE 6 is the relevant "uber-spec." That being the case I see the quoted text at section 5.16 rather than 5.17, but that slight discrepancy notwithstanding, my read on this is as follows:
The BV spec is designed to function in a Java SE environment. The EE spec imposes the WEB-INF/validation.xml location, but goes on, in section 5.16.2 to say: The Java EE Product Provider is responsible for providing appropriate Validator and ValidatorFactory objects as required by this specification. I conclude that the onus of bootstrapping the ValidatorFactory et al lies at the level of the EE container managing the bean validation impl. For a simple webapp in which you are managing BV yourself, therefore, WEB-INF/validation.xml is only applicable if you choose to make it so. Others are welcome to present differing opinions, however. HTH, Matt On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Michael Blyakher <michael.blyak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Where is the validation.xml supposed to be for a web archive? The bval > spec's only indicate the "META-INF/validation.xml" location, but the EE > platform spec indicates that for a web archive this location must be > "WEB-INF/validation.xml". > > EE.5.17 - "The name of the descriptor is WEB-INF/validation.xml for web > modules and META-INF/validation.xml for all other types of modules." > > Given this, I don't see anywhere in the bval 1.0 or 1.1 code that handles > this. Am I missing something or does this implementation not handle this > case for web archives? > > Thanks, > Michael
