Bean Validation API

This repository contains the Java Bean Validation 2.0 (JSR 380) API.

Bean Validation defines a metadata model and API for JavaBean and method validation.

You can learn more about it here:

Official website: http://beanvalidation.org/
Latest draft of the spec: http://beanvalidation.org/latest-draft/spec/
Reference implementation: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/

System requirements

JDK 8.

Licensing

The Bean Validation API is provided and distributed under the Apache Software License 2.0. Refer to license.txt for more information.

Build from Source

You can build the Bean Validation API from source by cloning the git repository https://github.com/beanvalidation/beanvalidation-api.git. You will also need a JDK 8 and Maven 3 (>= 3.0.3). With these prerequisites in place you can compile the source via:

mvn clean install

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