Obtaining a Validator instance
2.2.1. Obtaining a Validator instance The first step towards validating an entity instance is to get hold of a Validator instance. The road to this instance leads via the Validation class and a ValidatorFactory. The easiest way is to use the static Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory() method: Example 2.8. Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory() ValidatorFactory factory = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory(); Validator validator = factory.getValidator(); For other ways of obtaining a Validator instance see Chapter 5, Bootstrapping. For now we just want to see how we can use the Validator instance to validate entity instances.