Bean Validation 1.1

The Bean Validation 1.1 specification provides an annotation based model for validating JavaBeans. It can be used to assert and maintain the integrity of data as it travels through an application. This feature is built on top of Apache BVal.

Enabling this feature

To enable the Bean Validation 1.1 feature, add the following element declaration inside the featureManager element in your server.xml file:

<feature>beanValidation-1.1</feature>

Supported Java versions

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you are developing a feature that depends on the Bean Validation 1.1 feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in the feature manifest file for your new feature:

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.beanValidation-1.1; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"

Features that this feature enables

Features that enable this feature

Standard API packages provided by this feature

Feature configuration elements