Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator Commit: 30c9f4f03fece74886326ab54d667037a6d74c5d https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/30c9f4f03fece7488... Author: Hardy Ferentschik <hibernate(a)ferentschik.de&gt; Date: 2010-12-01 (Wed, 01 Dec 2010) Changed paths: M hibernate-validator/src/main/java/org/hibernate/validator/engine/ValidationContext.java M hibernate-validator/src/main/java/org/hibernate/validator/engine/ValidatorImpl.java Log Message: ----------- HV-395 Reducing the amount of time validationContext.markProcessed is called. It is enough to call it once per validated entity. There is no need to call it for each validation of an entity property