JSR 303: How to Validate a Collection of annotated objects?

Question

Is it possible to validate a collection of objects in JSR 303 - Jave Bean Validation where the collection itself does not have any annotations but the elements contained wit

Answer 1

Yes, just add @Valid to the collection.

Here is an example from the Hibernate Validator Reference.

public class Car {
  @NotNull
  @Valid
  private List passengers = new ArrayList();
}

This is standard JSR-303 behavior. See Section 3.1.3 of the spec.