Let composed constraint return the message of the first failing constraint instead of the composed constraint ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: BVAL-261 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/BVAL-261 Project: Bean Validation Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Emmanuel Bernard A better name is needed but to get the idea @ReportAsSingleViolation(messageSource=ByOriginatingConstraint) This would return the composing constraint message (say from @Size) instead of the composed constraint @ZipCode -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira