0 Replies Latest reply on Feb 13, 2010 2:28 AM by pradjboss1

    How to upgrade Hibernate Validator in JBoss 5.0.1

      I need to upgrade Hibernate Validator to latest version of 4.0.2.GA. I know that it is included as part of JBoss 6.0.0.M1. But I need to do it in JBoss 5.0.1.GA Is there any documentation on how to do it ?

       

      If the jar files are in my WEB-INF/lib directory then the following error is returned:

      12:51:54,537 ERROR [STDERR] javax.validation.ValidationException: Unable to find a default provider
      12:51:54,537 ERROR [STDERR]     at javax.validation.Validation$GenericBootstrapImpl.configure(Validation.java:264)

       

      I have tried by replacing the hibernate-validator.jar with the hibernate-validator-4.0.2.GA.jar and also added required validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar files to jboss-5.1.0.GA/common/lib directory or server/lib directory.

      But it does not resolves the problem. Error changes to :

      12:54:55,707 ERROR [STDERR] javax.validation.ValidationException: Unable to get available provider resolvers.
      12:54:55,708 ERROR [STDERR]     at javax.validation.Validation$GenericBootstrapImpl.configure(Validation.java:259)
      12:54:55,708 ERROR [STDERR]     at javax.validation.Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory(Validation.java:111)

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      12:54:55,710 ERROR [STDERR]     at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:202)
      12:54:55,710 ERROR [STDERR]     at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:534)
      12:54:55,710 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidator cannot be cast to javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider
      12:54:55,711 ERROR [STDERR]     at javax.validation.Validation$DefaultValidationProviderResolver.getValidationProviders(Validation.java:332)
      12:54:55,711 ERROR [STDERR]     at javax.validation.Validation$GenericBootstrapImpl.configure(Validation.java:25

       

      Please provide steps on how can I get JBoss to refer to new version of validator.

       

      Thanks in advance.