I have a dynamic web project I have been working on that uses hibernate as a jpa provider. Up until the last week, I could insert, update, query, and delete from my databas
Had the same problem with Springboot 2.1.4.RELEASE and some GeoTools dependencies.
Validation-api was specified from javax.validation and javaee-api jars.
Put them as dependencies like following:
javax.validation validation-api javax javaee-api 7.0 provided