Hibernate Commons Annotations source seems to have no dependency to hibernate-core and persistence-api but the readme.txt and the maven-pom claims this dependencies are required --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HV-29 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-29 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.0.0.ga Reporter: Chris W. Hibernate Commons Annotations source seems to have no dependency to hibernate-core and persistence-api but the readme.txt and the maven-pom claims this dependencies are required. I have analyzed the source code and found no dependencies to either hibernate-core or persistence-api. Readme.txt in hibernate-validator-3.0.0.GA.zip\hibernate-validator-3.0.0.GA\lib: Hibernate Commons Annotations dependencies ========================================== Core ==== hibernate-commons-annotations.jar: required hibernate3.jar: required hibernate core dependencies: required (see Hibernate Core for more information) ejb3-persistence.jar: optional (needed for Java Persistence integration) Test ==== hibernate-annotations.jar: required hibernate-entitymanager.jar: required Maven POM at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/hibernate/hibernate-commons-annotations...: <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId> <version>3.2.1.ga</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.persistence</groupId> <artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> </dependency> </dependencies> -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira