Hibernate_e_Validator. I can fix the typo. Typo aside though, I am not sure I understand the last sentence. What we are doing is, we register the default beans based on validation.xml unless there are already beans under the default qualifier. This might or might not be Hibernate Validator, depending on the configuration. On top of that we always register the Hibernate Validator beans under the @HibernateValidator qualifier. Right? I think the docs imply something else.