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Hi Robert Hecht, how do you configure cascaded validation in XML? Here is an example:

<constraint-mappings
        xmlns="http://jboss.org/xml/ns/javax/validation/mapping"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation=
                "http://jboss.org/xml/ns/javax/validation/mapping validation-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <default-package>org.hibernate.validator.internal.xml</default-package>

    <bean class="org.hibernate.validator.test.internal.xml.System" ignore-annotations="true">
        <getter name="parts">
            <valid/>
        </getter>
    </bean>

    <bean class="org.hibernate.validator.test.internal.xml.Part" ignore-annotations="false"/>
</constraint-mappings>

Note the dedicated <valid/> node for cascaded constraints. Any chance you are using something like:

<constraint annotation="javax.validation.Valid"/>

That would explain the error you are seeing. Using <valid/> everything should just work.