Dear all, I'm trying to write a custom validator as described http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/validator/reference/en/html/validator-d... The validator is intended for use with new users registering and he has to check whether the login given by user is still available. Therefore I need to connect with the data layer to execute a finder on users. Is there any simple way of doing that? @PersistenceContext private EntityManager em; doesn't help since validator aint a bean. Thanks in advance for any help, Kind Regards, karol View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4114477#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...