Now that the Number validators are more clever (and thus a bit slower), it makes sense to have specific validators for Integers which is one of the most common use cases (we have some for Long, Float, Double...).

I'm talking about the validators in org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.bv.number.bound .

Marko Bekhta would you have the cycles to do it before I release the next 6.0 (probably next week)?