Unit / Integration Testing the Bean Validation (JSR-303) : Adam Bien's Weblog

Unit / Integration Testing the Bean Validation (JSR-303) : Adam Bien's Weblog

Hibernate Validator requires Expression Language dependency. Without the javax.el dependency you will get the following error:

  Caused by: javax.validation.ValidationException: HV000183: Unable to load 'javax.el.ExpressionFactory'. Check that you have the EL dependencies on the classpath  	at org.hibernate.validator.messageinterpolation.ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator.(ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator.java:172)  	at org.hibernate.validator.messageinterpolation.ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator.(ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator.java:118)  

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