Show validation errors without real hibernate model based validation exceptions

[mwinter1]

Hi,

we've got several ejbs which contain entities and services and should be presented by a seam frontend. We're now facing the problem that theres no elegant solution to show valdiation exceptions which are specific to our business services in another way than jsf-global.
As far as the documentation goes there are three possible ways to show a validation exception:

1. As a global JSF message


2. HTML-Field specific by hibernate validation


3. HTML-Field specific by JSF addMessageToComponent Method

The first option isn't good if the validation can be tracked down to a property of a bean represented by a field/component in the page. The second option is very elegant but only works with hibernate validations. The third option would work for us but its hard to keep a mapping of view-id to bean-property.
So my question is: Assuming we have the following information about a failed validation:

• class of entity bean


• name of property


• cause of validation exception

Could we somehow manually raise a hibernate validation exception, which encapsulates this information and view it using the

<s:validate>

tag without using hibernate validation annotations on the entity beans?
Or is there a best practice for mapping the id to an validation exception using JSF option number 3?

Thanks in advance.