I’m happy to announce the release of the Alpha2 release of the Bean Validation 2 API and specification. This release contains several improvements and clarifications around the validation of container elements (think List<@Email String>): Custom value extractors can now be passed in when bootstrapping a validator factory or validator (via API or XML) Value extractors are detected via the Java service loader mechanism (e.g. allowing libraries to ship their own extractors for custom collectio...