On 26 October 2011 15:36, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel@hibernate.org> wrote:

IMHO, if the mechanism used to discover the ConstraintValidator implementations is pluggable, it should work.

What do you have in mind? I don't mind having a pluggable discovery mechanism but we need a standard way for a constraint implementor to expose the fact that it implements validators for some constraints.

I've nothing special in mind. By pluggable I mean a way to override the discovery mechanism like it's done with the ValidationProviderResolver. The way used to specify the ConstraintValidator implementations will remain the same.

Because I'm not sure it's possible to have a mechanism which works in a modular and non-modular world out of the box. For example, to make it work with OSGi you'll have to be depend on the API. AFAIK, JBoss Modules allows to import/export service resources.

--Kevin