Spring default validator vs Hibernate validator : Which is better?

Question

My project have to migrate from Spring MVC to Spring boot,and we are managed to initialize Spring boot from Spring Initializr and it is bundled with spring validation by default. There is a confusion among us to choose either Spring default validator or Hibernate validator. Please advice!!

Answer 1

After a day's research I have found out a few facts.

As of now Spring Boot 1.5.9 by default comes with Bean Validation 1.0 (JSR-303) and Bean Validation 1.1 (JSR-349)

• Java Bean Validation (JSR 303) is a framework that has been approved by the JCP as of Nov 2009 and is accepted as part of the Java EE 6 specification.
• Bean Validation 1.1 (JSR 349) was finished in 2013.It is part of Java EE 7.

Hibernate Validator 6.X on the other hand is the reference implementation Bean Validation 2.0 (JSR 380).

• Support for the JSR 310 date/time types for @Pastand@Future

• New built-in constraints:@Positive, @PositiveOrZero, @Negative, @NegativeOrZero, @PastOrPresent and @FutureOrPresent

• Bean Validation 2.0 will also be part of the Java EE 8 platform.

Here is the comparison of built-in constraints of theese two(Click on Run code snippet and see annotation wise comparison.)

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<table class="w3-table-all w3-card-4">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Annotations / Features</th>
      <th>Hibernate Validator 6.X</th>
      <th>Spring default Validator</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>@AssertFalse</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@AssertTrue</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@DecimalMax</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@DecimalMin</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Digits</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Future</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Max</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Min</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@NotNull</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Null</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Past</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Pattern</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Size</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Negative</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="red">No</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@NegativeOrZero</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="red">No</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Positive</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="red">No</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@PositiveOrZero</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="red">No</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@PastOrPresent</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="red">No</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@FutureOrPresent</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="red">No</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@NotEmpty</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="red">No</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@NotBlank</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="red">No</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>@Email</td>
      <td class="green">Yes</td>
      <td class="red">No</td>
    </tr>



  </tbody>
</table>