I would say that the behavior described is the expected behavior.
AFAIK, the @Validation() annotation is just a bit of red-tape, and if
we didn't need it, it wouldn't be there at all. Essentially, the
@Validation is inherited alongwith the validations. There's another
semantic, @SkipValidation, th
https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2292
I'm assuming what's happening is that ActionSupport's
validation is enough to use field validator
annotations even if the action doesn't have an
explicit @Validation() annotation (or something else
that leads to the same result).
WW-2292 basically a