How to use Hibernate Validator in Seam Home object?

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Hi everyone.

Sorry if this is not a seam specific question but I don't know where else to ask.

I have the following code that should produce a validation failure but it doesn't work.

@Name("departamentoHome")
public class DepartamentoHome extends EntityHome<Departamento> {

     ...

     @Override
     public String persist() {
          

          // set invalid value (getCodigo() is annotated with @NotNull)
          getInstance().setCodigo(null);

          
          ValidatorFactory factory = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory();
          Validator validator = factory.getValidator();

          //validation should fail
          Set<ConstraintViolation<Departamento>> constraintViolations = validator.validate(getInstance());
          
          if (!constraintViolations.isEmpty()) {
               facesMessages.add(Severity.ERROR,
                         "Validation failed");
               return null;
          }

          return super.persist();
     }
}

What am I doing wrong?

The reason for doing the validation here is that I have implemented a custom class level constraint and I need to check it before persisting the entity. My constraint didn't worked, then I tested my aplication with this simple constraint but it didn't worked either.

I use:

• Jboss Seam 2.2.1.Final


• Jboss AS 6.0.0.Final

Thanks in advance.