While it's important to build data validation into as many layers of a Web application as possible, it's traditionally been very time-consuming to do so, leading many developers to just skip it -- which can lead to a host of problems down the road. But with the introduction of annotations in the latest version of the Java��� platform, validation got a lot easier. In this article, Ted Bergeron shows you how to use the Validator component of Hibernate Annotations to build and maintain validation logic easily in your Web apps.