Provides annotation classes needed for bean validation. This annotations, instead of JSR 303 ones, are used since there's actually no OSGi compatible release of neither JSR 303 jar itself nor an implementation like Hibernate Validation 4.0.

SpringSource repository versions are rejected due to the fact, that Maven poms in central repository aren't allowed to have external repository entries (self hosting).

Maybe this annotations will be removed for official JSR 303 on some of the later releases when there is a clean OSGi compatible release.

@since 1.9.1