You may use javax.validation.ValidationProvider class directly to lookup spec implementation, if you have geronimo-osgi-locator bundle installed. Geronimo locator is installed by default in karaf. I was using bval a lot in our tests. You can check this repo - it does work with karaf 3.0.4, but 2.x is pretty much the same:
https://github.com/Code-House/karaf-validation <https://github.com/Code-House/karaf-validation> Kind regards, Lukasz — [email protected] Twitter: ldywicki Blog: http://dywicki.pl Code-House - http://code-house.org > Wiadomość napisana przez Benson Margulies <[email protected]> w dniu 23 > paź 2015, o godz. 22:19: > > I have a pax-exam test of code that uses Apache bval and thus > javax.validation, and I use the servicemix spec provider. > > The test fails with java.lang.ClassCastException: > org.apache.bval.jsr.ApacheValidationProvider cannot be cast to > javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider. > > When I stop it in the debugger, I see that there are indeed two Class > objects afloat for ValidationProvider. > > One of them is a sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader. The other is an > OSGi class loader. > > The sun.misc one is the one for the interface of the class returned by ... > > Class<? extends ValidationProvider> providerClass = > org.apache.servicemix.specs.locator.OsgiLocator.locate(ValidationProvider.class);
