First Alpha of Bean Validation 2.0 Reference Implementation Available

A few days after the release of the Bean Validation 2.0 Early Draft 1 there is now also a first version of the reference implementation available. If you are using Apache Maven, add the following dependency to your pom.xml to give it a test ride: org.hibernate.validator hibernate-validator 6.0.0.Alpha1 The 6.0.0.Alpha1 release provides all the functionality of the Early Draft 1. In addition there is support for nested type argument constraints, e.g.