Package org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.provider

package org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.provider

Abstraction of the meta data sources - annotation, xml, programmatic.

Related Packages

Package	Description
org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata	Implementations of the Bean Validation metadata interfaces as well as Hibernate Validator specific meta data classes.

Class	Description
AnnotationMetaDataProvider	MetaDataProvider which reads the metadata from annotations which is the default configuration source.
MetaDataProvider	A provider for constraint related meta data such as constraints, default group sequences etc.
ProgrammaticMetaDataProvider	A MetaDataProvider based on the programmatic constraint API.
XmlMetaDataProvider	A MetaDataProvider providing constraint related meta data based on XML descriptors as defined by the Bean Validation API.