I am completely agree with Hardy. It is irrelevant in validation scope.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 January 2013 13:35, Hardy Ferentschik <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hardy@hibernate.org" target="_blank">hardy@hibernate.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-1 for @Nullable. It is not a constraint in the Bean Validation sense. It provided different type of metadata.</blockquote>

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