If you  cannot or don't want to rely on auto-configuration of Hibernate  Validator, for example in a JPA 1 environment and you are using Spring,  all one needs to do is this:

          factory-method="buildDefaultValidatorFactory" />
    

   
   
   
   

To wire these beans into the sessionfactory in hibernate, this  is all that needs to be done given the other bean definitions:

 

    
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