This is not really an issue of Hibernate Validator. javax.validation.Validation is part of the Bean Validation specification itself. The solution for your problem is to implement/provide a custom ValidationProviderResolver. Something like:
Validation.byDefaultProvider().providerResolver( new ACMEProviderResolver() ).configure().buildValidatorFactory();
This is not really an issue of Hibernate Validator. javax.validation.Validation is part of the Bean Validation specification itself. The solution for your problem is to implement/provide a custom ValidationProviderResolver. Something like:
Validation.byDefaultProvider().providerResolver( new ACMEProviderResolver() ).configure().buildValidatorFactory();