I wanted to use EclipseLink for Spring Boot in my Spring Boot project. I was able to configure everything. But when I was implementing I found one strange thing. I had to include EclipseLink as implementation for JPA in my pom.xml. My first try was:
<groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>eclipselink</artifactId>
<version>RELEASE</version>
However, when I was trying to run my code each time I received an exception:
Unable to create a Configuration, because no Bean Validation provider could be found. Add a provider like Hibernate Validator (RI) to your classpath.
I was searching on their website https://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Maven and it is written there that dependency to EclipseLink should contain all the other implementation.
I tried to change dependency in pom.xml to:
<groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa</artifactId>
<version>RELEASE</version>
And everything works as expected. Does this dependency contains more than EclipseLink? Does not EclipseLink dependency contains implementation for bean validation?