Propably this is more of a JSF question, but is there any chance to avoid the jsf error message, which will be shown when the input field is emtpy and required="true" ? With s:validate and required="true" you actually get a "two-step" validation: First all fields with required="true" are checked and standard jsf error messages are shown. Second the hibernate validations are checked. What I would like to see is that only the error messages from the hibernate validations are shown, which was the behaviour with the @IfInvalid annotation. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3994171#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...