Is there a standard way to enable JSR 303 Bean Validation using annotated method arguments

Question

I've been looking a around for a while now with no luck. I'n not using Spring MVC but still want to use @javax.validation.Valid to enable validation of method arguments. To give an example

public class EventServiceImpl implements IEventService {
    @Override
    public void invite(@Valid Event event, @Valid User user) { ... }
}

Using MVC, this is enabled for @Controller annotated beans with a simple <mvc:annotation-driven/> (see 5.7.4.3 Configuring a JSR-303 Validator for use by Spring MVC).

Using AOP should be quite trivial. Nevertheless, I suspect there's some standard way to do this. Hence the question: Is there a similar thing for non-MVC applications and non-controller beans to enable input validation for annotated beans?

Answer 1

The answers seem to be quite old. As of now, you can utilize @Validated and MethodValidationPostProcessor for method inline validation of any Spring beans. They are basically responsible for creating pointcut-like behavior for Spring managed beans of any tier, not Controllers specifically. Also see my other answer.