Maven using wrong version of javax.validation

Question

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

Answer 1

Do mvn dependency:tree , May you have another dependencies that use hibernate-annotations, and conflict with your spring version, also you can find them and exclude from class path, as below:

 <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
       <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>

I hopefully help you.

Answer 2

Had the same issue as jekho, but solved it with:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
    <artifactId>gt-referencing</artifactId>
    <version>22.3</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>javax</groupId>
            <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

I found which dependency was using javaee-api by using maven's dependency:tree on my project which points out which packages are being used by which dependency.

Answer 3

Try adding this dependency to your pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
    <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.1.Final</version>
</dependency>

Answer 4

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:

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
    <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax</groupId>
    <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
    <version>7.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Answer 5

The situation is provoked by having javaee-web-api 7.0 as dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>javax</groupId>
  <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
  <version>7.0</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

This dependency provided by your servlet or application container at runtime is giving you an older api for javax.validation.

You have two things to try:

Change the version of javaee-web-api to 8.0

This is the fastest solution if you are deploying your web app to a servlet or application container that supports Java EE 8.0 (for example: it seems to work in Tomcat 8.5.X but reading the documentation, only Tomcat 9 provides support for Java EE 8).

Keep javaee-web-api as 7.0 and downgrade hibernate-validator, validation-api dependencies:

<dependency>
  <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
  <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.0.Final</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
  <version>5.4.2.Final</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-validator-annotation-processor</artifactId>
  <version>5.4.2.Final</version>
</dependency>    

You have to change also some imports such as @Email or @NotEmpty from javax.validation package to org.hibernate.validator.constraints (those annotations are Deprecated in 6.0.X hibernate-validator versions because they're included inside javax.validation api).