In earlier post about Bean Validation support, we focused on Java related things. In other words, we only talked about Bean Validation support in Java code. IntelliJ IDEA 9 (Maia) also has powerful Bean Validation support in XML descriptors (validation.xml and XMLs describing constraint mappings). Let's start from filling out validation.xml. All features like classes/packages completion are working as we're expecting them to: And, of course, all standard inspections like wrong class, package or file path also work here. (more…)