After putting hibernate-validator.jar and javax.validation-api.jar in my classpath the org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException is replaced by org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException and this is causing a lot of issues.

I have to put this two jars to be able to upgrade Jersey to 2.4, it has dependency on these two jars.

Putting these properties into hibernate.properties file doesn't help, hibernate simply ignores them but it loads the properties on start-up

loaded properties from resource hibernate.properties: {hibernate.validator.apply_to_ddl=false,hibernate.validator.autoregister_listeners=false etc}

javax.persistence.validation.mode=none
hibernate.validator.autoregister_listeners=false
hibernate.validator.apply_to_ddl=false

I am using Spring 3.2.4 with SessionFactory and mapping resources from hbm.xml files with constraints in it, hibernate 3.6.9.final, hibernate-validator 5.0.final, javax.validator-api 1.1.0.Final

I just can't figure out how to disable hibernate validation, any help will be much appreciated.