JPA Hibernate validation rules are too strict by default -------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-15842 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-15842 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Enhancement Components: hibernate Reporter: Tomas Remes Fix For: 4.1.1.CR1 When you for example import Seam UI example (https://github.com/seam2/jboss-seam/tree/Seam_2_3/examples/ui) to JBDS, you will face a lot of IMO unnecessary errors, which are fired by JPA validator. E.g: "Target entity is not defined" These rules are in most cases defined as optional attributes of JPA annotations, therefore I think the validation rules are too strict - many of them have error level by default.