hibernate validator turn off auto validate

[miroconnect@yahoo.com]

I want to validate an entity , I decided to use hibernate validator as it is most recommended , My application uses hibernate for persistence.
I thought using hibernate validator will not trigger automatic validation on save or update of an entity ,does it trigger automatically if my entity has annotations like @NotEmpty etc ?I donot want hibernate to call validation on my entity , can I control this , I want to use validation only in some special cases not every time I update or save .

[dr_pompeii]

It is not very closely related with Spring

I suggest you read the Hibernate Validator documentation and post this question on Hibernate Forums

I could assume a flag could be activated or turn off about validation when you are calling some Hibernate DAO like save update, etc