I'm using hibernate-validator in a Spring MVC based application. The validation annotations like @NotEmpty are used in the entity objects. I want to override the default message used for the @NotEmpty annotation.

This is working and the message key is resolved by the spring message source:

@NotEmpty(message="myMessageKey")

My idea was to use plain @NotEmpty annoation (without specifying a message key) and to override/set the default message key in my spring message source. I assume the default message key is org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty.message and I expected that the text gets resolved by my spring message source the same way as myMessageKey. But unfortunatley this does not work. org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty.message key is resolved by Hibernate Validator message bundles.