From: cowwoc <cowwoc_at_bbs.darktech.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:44:29 -0400

Hi Tatu,

     I tried playing with DropWizard but now I'm getting frustrated with
the component that I knew would annoy me: Hibernate Validator (I've had
bad experiences with anything related to Hibernate).

     I created the sample application mentioned here:
http://dropwizard.codahale.com/getting-started/

     But then I added the following method inside HelloWorldResource:

     private void foo(@NotNull @Valid String value) {
         System.out.println("*******************inside: " + value);
     }

     and I invoke foo(null) from sayHello(). I am expecting the
validator to throw an exception since I am passing in null, but instead
the calls continues as if nothing is wrong. What am I missing?

Thanks,
Gili