# Jakarta Validation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-validation/  
**Provider:** Jakarta EE — https://apis.io/providers/jakarta-ee/  
**Documentation:** https://jakarta.ee/specifications/bean-validation/

Jakarta Validation is one of 6 APIs that [Jakarta EE](https://apis.io/providers/jakarta-ee/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Specification and Validation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

Jakarta Validation (formerly Bean Validation) provides an object-level constraint declaration and validation facility through annotations and a runtime API. It is widely used to validate inputs in REST endpoints, persistence entities, and other Jakarta EE components.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://jakarta.ee/specifications/bean-validation/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/jakartaee/validation

## Other Jakarta EE APIs (5)

- [Jakarta RESTful Web Services](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-restful-web-services/)
- [Jakarta JSON Processing](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-json-processing/)
- [Jakarta JSON Binding](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-json-binding/)
- [Jakarta WebSocket](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-websocket/)
- [Jakarta Servlet](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-servlet/)

## Tags

Specification, Validation

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