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Today we’ll be talking about Hibernate Validator and how you can provide your own constraints and/or validators in a fully self-contained manner. Meaning packaging it all into its own JAR file, in a way that others can use your library by simply adding it to the classpath.
This functionality is based on Hibernate Validator usage of Java’s ServiceLoader mechanism that allows to register additional constraint definitions. But more on the details later.
What can be a real life scenario for building your own library with constraints and sharing it? Well, let’s say that you are building some library with data classes that user might want to validate. As it may be tough to keep track of all such libraries and write/maintain all those constraints for them - Hibernate Validator provides authors of such libraries a possibility to write and share their own validation extensions. Which can be picked up by Hibernate Validator and used to validate your data classes.
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