javax.validation.ValidationException: Unable to find default provider

Question

I am currently working on Spring MVC web app and trying to hook up validation using the @Valid annotation. When I fire up the application I\'m getting the following exceptio

Answer 1

In my case, I had the same problem, but it was happening because the jar of hibernate-core version 4.1.8.Final downloaded by maven was corrupted. I swithed to version 4.1.6.Final and it started working. I was using STS and spring repositories.

Hope this helps someone.