On 21 Apr 2015, at 20:52, Hardy Ferentschik
<hardy(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
 
  My guess
 is that when this option is enabled and Bean Valdation's @NotNull
 is used as well, the ORM validation kicks in first and throws some ORM specific
exception
 instead of the ConstraintViolationException one would expect in this case). 
Correct.