JSR-303 bean validation with Spring and iBatis?

That's definitely possible. Spring provides dependency injection support also within constraint validators. So you can simply inject any required services in your custom validators like this.

That's definitely possible. Spring provides dependency injection support also within constraint validators. So you can simply inject any required services in your custom validators like this: public class EmailExistsValidator implements ConstraintValidator { @Inject private EmailValidationService service; @Override public void initialize(EmailExists constraintAnnotation) {} @Override public boolean isValid(String value, ConstraintValidatorContext context) { if (value == null) { return true; } return service.

Exists(value); } } Depending on your concrete scenario it might be a good idea to first check "cheap" constraints such as @NotNull and only if these constraints are valid check more expensive constraints such as @EmailExists. You can do this with help of group sequences and a redefined default group sequence for your type.

I didn't think about @Inject. We'll try that. Thanks so much!

– mrjabba Aug 22 at 19:53.

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