[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Validator and parametrized types

Hi, according to the JSR 303 spec type parameters of constraint validator types must not resolve to parametrized types (though the spec mentions such validator types might be allowed in future versions). To my understanding that means that validators as the following one are invalid with respect to the BV spec: public class SomeValidator implements ConstraintValidator<MyAnnotation, List<Integer>> { ... } while the next one is valid: public class SomeValidator implements ConstraintValidator<MyAnnotation, List> { ... } Nevertheless also the first validator seems to work fine with HV. So does HV here do something more than defined in the spec? If that's the case, I wonder whether there shouldn't be some kind of switch in HV to be activated explicitely in order to allow for this working. That way people might use that feature but are made aware that other BV implementations might reject such validators. WDYT? Thanks, Gunnar