title: Unable to create a Configuration, because no Bean Validation provider could be found. Add a provider like Hibernate Validator (RI) to your classpath
body: <p>Today,I am looking into send Email, but when I add</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-context-support&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;4.2.5.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
  &lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;javax&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;javaee-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;7.0&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
  &lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;javax.mail&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;javax.mail-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.5.5&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to pom.xml and deploy on the server, I get an " Unable to create a Configuration, because no Bean Validation provider could be found. Add a provider like Hibernate Validator (RI) to your classpath." validation exception.</p>
  
  <p>I'm just added the dependency above and the one for email to a template MVC project.</p>
  
  <p>Error stacktrace:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DEBUG: org.springframework.ui.context.support.UiApplicationContextUtils - Unable to locate ThemeSource with name 'themeSource': using default [org.springframework.ui.context.support.DelegatingThemeSource@20212230]
  DEBUG: org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.OptionalValidatorFactoryBean - Failed to set up a Bean Validation provider
  javax.validation.ValidationException: Unable to create a Configuration, because no Bean Validation provider could be found. Add a provider like Hibernate Validator (RI) to your classpath.
      at javax.validation.Validation$GenericBootstrapImpl.configure(Validation.java:271)
      at org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalValidatorFactoryBean.java:223)
      at org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.OptionalValidatorFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(OptionalValidatorFactoryBean.java:40)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1637)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1574)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:545)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:772)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:839)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:538)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:667)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:633)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:681)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:493)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:136)
      at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1241)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1154)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1041)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4944)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5230)
      at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1409)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1399)
      at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  </code></pre>