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The Jakarta Validation migration upgrades Hibernate Validator to 7.0 - #1277

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Hibernate Validator before 7 registers a javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider, so after the migration jakarta.validation.Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory() finds no provider. JavaxValidationMigrationToJakartaValidation now changes the old org.hibernate:hibernate-validator coordinates to org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator 7.0.x and upgrades existing org.hibernate.validator dependencies to 7.0.x, the Jakarta Validation 3 line, keeping their scope. Hibernate Validator 7 also needs a Jakarta Expression Language implementation for standalone bootstrap, which this does not add.

Found by a team of coding agents reviewing a Moderne run of org.openrewrite.java.migrate.jakarta.JavaxMigrationToJakarta over the 31 Arquillian repositories (run 20261003120559-YQoma). The issue is hibernate-validator-javax-provider-retained in the run's io.moderne.RecipeIssues data table (1 row), and the fix was discussed and reviewed on the run's message board. A row from the table, as a generalized example:

Jakarta Validation bootstrap retains a javax-only Hibernate Validator provider. (arquillian/continuous-enterprise-development, code/application/pom.xml, recipe org.openrewrite.java.migrate.jakarta.JavaxMigrationToJakarta)

Before:

org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:4.3.0.Final; javax.validation.Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory();

What the recipe produced:

org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:4.3.0.Final; jakarta.validation.Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory();

Expected:

org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator:7.0.5.Final; org.glassfish:jakarta.el:4.0.2; jakarta.validation.Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory();

Stacked on #1276 (14 of 19); merge that one first.

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#1271)

* javax-reflective-names-retained: migrate runtime Jakarta type names

* maven-coordinate-literal-retained: migrate validation artifact lookups (#1272)

* weld-javax-provider-retained: align Weld core with Jakarta CDI (#1273)

* `JettyUpgradeEE9` also upgrades the other Jetty dependencies, the servlet packages and the Java version (#1274)

* jetty-ee9-java-baseline: align Jetty dependencies packages and Java baseline

* jetty-ee9-java-baseline: leave standalone Jetty utility dependencies unchanged

* jetty-ee9-java-baseline: require a direct dependency before upgrading Java

* `JacksonJavaxToJakarta` keeps newer Jackson versions and shared version properties when relocating artifacts (#1275)

* jackson-version-downgrade: preserve newer versions and shared properties

* jackson-shared-version-property-split: cover older shared Jackson versions

* The Jakarta JAXB migration keeps the `javax.xml.bind` API for Arquillian Recorder 1.x binaries (#1276)

* recorder-javax-jaxb-api-removed: retain the API needed by Recorder binaries

* recorder-javax-jaxb-api-removed: limit retention to external binaries after migration

* hibernate-validator-javax-provider-retained: migrate legacy validation providers (#1277)

* legacy-javaee-api-coordinate-retained: migrate legacy annotation EL and EJB aliases (#1278)

* The Jakarta migration keeps a provided API provided instead of adding it again in compile scope (#1279)

* cdi-provided-scope-promoted: preserve provided CDI API scope

* cdi-provided-scope-promoted: distinguish provided declarations from runtime APIs

* provided-api-scope-overwritten: preserve provided Mail API scope

* provided-api-scope-overwritten: preserve container API scopes across Jakarta migrations

* The Jackson Jakarta migration adds the `defaultView` parameter to `ProviderBase._configForWriting` overrides (#1280)

* jackson-provider-override-signature: forward the default view parameter

* jackson-provider-override-signature: update callers of migrated overrides

* invocation-context-get-constructor-missing: complete legacy decorators (#1281)

* jakarta-api-duplicates-platform: respect provided platform APIs (#1282)
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