JPA Hibernate validation rules are too strict by default -------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBDS-2813 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2813 Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio) Issue Type: Enhancement Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: hibernate Affects Versions: 7.0.0.GA, 7.1.0.Alpha2 Reporter: Tomas Remes 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.