Hi Ed, I don't object per-se to this change, but it doesn't seem necessary to me. 1) We don't control which validators are the default from faces- config.xml (which @FacesValidator mirrors) but from Application, so it's not like we are missing an XML counterpart in annotations 2) The use case I see for default validators is not one where which validators are defaulted by the validator, but by the application (e.g. application1 uses bean validation and so wants that as the default, application2 doesn't, but does uses MyCustomDomainValidator) On 6 Mar 2009, at 20:49, Ed Burns wrote: -- Pete Muir http://www.seamframework.org http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete