Just to explain in a hypothetical sense, if a bean has an @Create method and it in turn calls a method to fetch the date filed which has an @Future annotation, then the validation of date being a future date is omitted.
@Create public void doInit(){ if (getDueDate()){ } } @Future @NotNull public Date getDueDate() { return dueDate; }
(1) Validation does not happen when you call a method, it must be used together with <s:validate/> or <s:validateAll/>.
(2) Yes, the EJB3 (and EJB1/2) spec says that interception does not occur when "this" is invoked.