Please review the latest changes to the integration chapter http://beanvalidation.org/latest-draft/spec/#integration After much deliberations here are the choices that have been made: - the section around @ValidateExecutable and the XML global config <validated-executables/> has moved to the integration chapter - <validated-executables/> is part of validation.xml (and not beans.xml) and is only visible via Configuration.getBootstrapConfiguration().getValidatedExecutableTypes() - @ValidateExecutable and <validated-executables/> do not influence the metadata and runtime behavior of the Bean Validation engines - it is the interception technology's responsibility to honor <validated-executables/> and @ValidateExecutable There has been much debates between Hardy, Gunnar and I. I was personally in favor of honoring <validated-executables/> and @ValidateExecutable in the BV runtime and metadata (with an option to disable that) but they felt that due to the separation of concern / responsibility, it was better to leave that to the integration piece with the interception technology. To be clear, validateParameters and co as well as the metadata around executables ignore <validated-executables/> and @ValidateExecutable today. Please read the chapter (and the linked sections). It's a short read but that will be useful for us if you can express your opinion. Remember, we are in the last 20 days to finish everything in BV 1.1. Emmanuel