How to use an Upgraded Version of the Hibernate Validator Jar in Wildfly 8.2?

Question

I'm in the process of integrating Hibernate Validator into our Java based web app. We use JSR-310 types extensively.

I see that Hibernate Validator version 5.2 adds support for these types, so I've added version 5.2.0.Beta1 to my EAR deployment's /lib directory like all of our other dependencies.

But when I test our deployed EAR, I get the following error:

javax.validation.UnexpectedTypeException: HV000030: No validator could be found for type: java.time.Instant.
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintValidatorManager.verifyResolveWasUnique(ConstraintValidatorManager.java:218) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintValidatorManager.findMatchingValidatorClass(ConstraintValidatorManager.java:193) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintValidatorManager.getInitializedValidator(ConstraintValidatorManager.java:97) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintTree.validateConstraints(ConstraintTree.java:125) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintTree.validateConstraints(ConstraintTree.java:91) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.core.MetaConstraint.validateConstraint(MetaConstraint.java:83) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraint(ValidatorImpl.java:547) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForDefaultGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:487) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForCurrentGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:451) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateInContext(ValidatorImpl.java:403) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateCascadedConstraint(ValidatorImpl.java:723) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateCascadedConstraints(ValidatorImpl.java:601) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateInContext(ValidatorImpl.java:412) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validate(ValidatorImpl.java:206) [hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final]

Notice that hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final.jar:5.1.3.Final appears in the stack trace not the 5.2.0.Beta1 that I have in my EAR file.

I think what's happening is that Wildfly (we're using 8.2.0.Final) is including an older version of the hibernate-validator JARs instead of the newer ones that we're including in our EAR file. How do I prevent this from happening?

I think the answer might be to include a jboss-deployment-structure.xml file that coaxes Wildfly to use the JAR that I supply. I've found this reference , but it's not clear what to include in that file to coax Wildfly into using the JAR I supply.

Answer 1

Using jboss-deployment-structure.xml might be one way of doing this. However, I would suggest to just update the module configurations under modules/system/layers/base . Copy hibernate-validator-5.2.0.Beta1.jar and hibernate-validator-cdi-5.2.0.Beta1.jar into org/hibernate/validator/main resp. org/hibernate/validator/cdi/main and update the respective modules.xml to point to the new jar files.