What? I don't think we are on the same page, Tim.
This is a bean validation validator that uses the Hibernate bean validation annotation APIs. It has no access to the view tree (nor should it). There are examples of how this can be attached to a class so it shouldn't be a problem (
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1972933/cross-field-validation-with-hibernate-validator-jsr-303). Unfortunately, I can't get it to work anywhere other than on a field or method. It isn't called on a constructor for me either.
If it helps, I am using Apache
Tomcat 6 and have downloaded hibernate-validator-4.1.0.jar to patch it to support annotations in EE 6. More information on what I did is shown here under Bean Validation (
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/12/29/jsf-20-and-tomcat).
If this needs to be moved to a different part of the forum than the
JSF section, feel free to move it.