Hi

I asked this question on the Hibernate forum and got no response. Hopefully some Seam user can guide me.

http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=991725&sid=d3467a39a5774ef64ec8873506411b22

I have a custom hibernate validator as

     
@Pattern(regex="^\\d*$", message="{validator.custom.digits}")
@Length(min = 5, max = 10)
@UniqueSimpleKey (tableName = "TAX", pkColumnName = "TAX_CODE")
public String getTaxCode() {
     return this.taxCode;
}

My last validator is a custom validator that fires a SQL query to check if the code entered already exists. The problem is that Hibernate will run this validation even if the validations prior to this one fail. Is there a switch to control this ?

Alternatively, does anyone know how to gracefully handle duplicate key checks ?

Thanks
Franco