Javax Annotation Validation JUnit without Hibernate validator

Question

I have a jax-rs project that uses javax annotations ( @NotNull, @Pattern etc. ). I want to add unit tests for validating these annotations, but unfortunately cannot use the hibernate-validator (company maven repo does not have it) as suggested in this answer. Is there any other way to validate the annotations using unit tests ?

Answer 1

Apache's Bval provides a validator implementation that can serve as an alternative to hibernate-validator. Here's an example for getting started on using Bval.