Trouble starting Hibernate Validator due to Bean Validation API

Question

I'm trying to use Hibernate Validator in my project, but it isn't working. On the following line:

SessionFactory sessions = config.buildSessionFactory(builder.build());

I get the following exception:

org.hibernate.cfg.beanvalidation.IntegrationException: Error activating Bean Validation integration
    at org.hibernate.cfg.beanvalidation.BeanValidationIntegrator.integrate(BeanValidationIntegrator.java:154)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:311)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1857)
    at net.myProject.server.util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:32)
    ... 36 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.validation.spi.ConfigurationState.getParameterNameProvider()Ljavax/validation/ParameterNameProvider;
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorFactoryImpl.<init>(ValidatorFactoryImpl.java:119)
    at org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidator.buildValidatorFactory(HibernateValidator.java:45)
    at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl.buildValidatorFactory(ConfigurationImpl.java:217)
    at javax.validation.Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory(Validation.java:111)

I found this question which seems quite similar to my problem. He describes his solution as

I had yet another bean validator jar in the class path. But not from maven, so i didn't realize it. Removing that solved the problem.

I think my problem is the same. On http://hibernate.org/validator/documentation/getting-started/ it says:

This transitively pulls in the dependency to the Bean Validation API (javax.validation:validation-api:1.1.0.Final)

That must be causing this issue, since reverting to an older version (4.3.1.Final) fixes the issue. Is there a way to force Hibernate to not pull in the Bean Validation API?

Edit: I've tried to exclude the javax-validation api:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
      <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
      <version>5.0.3.Final</version>
      <exclusions>
          <exclusion>
              <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
              <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
          </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
  </dependency>

But it didn't seem to have any effect.

Answer 1

Try adding this dependency to your pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
    <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0.GA</version>
</dependency>

If not consider using hibernate-validator4.2.0.Final I have that one in my config and it is working fine.