diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml b/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
index ef18cef3e0..0f6dbfbd98 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
@@ -166,7 +166,28 @@
             <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
             <version>${poi.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-		
+        
+        <!-- Validation -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
+            <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
+            <version>1.1.0.Final</version>
+        </dependency>		
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
+            <version>5.1.2.Final</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>javax.el</groupId>
+            <artifactId>javax.el-api</artifactId>
+            <version>2.2.4</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
+            <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
+            <version>2.2.4</version>
+        </dependency>        
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/customvalidator/ContactNumberConstraint.java b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/customvalidator/ContactNumberConstraint.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2fba2720c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/customvalidator/ContactNumberConstraint.java
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package com.baeldung.customvalidator;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+import javax.validation.Constraint;
+import javax.validation.Payload;
+
+@Documented
+@Constraint(validatedBy = ContactNumberValidator.class)
+@Target( { ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD })
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+public @interface ContactNumberConstraint {
+
+    String message() default "Invalid phone number";
+    Class<?>[] groups() default {};
+    Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {};
+    
+}
diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/customvalidator/ContactNumberValidator.java b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/customvalidator/ContactNumberValidator.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a7eb7a9df4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/customvalidator/ContactNumberValidator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package com.baeldung.customvalidator;
+
+import javax.validation.ConstraintValidator;
+import javax.validation.ConstraintValidatorContext;
+
+public class ContactNumberValidator implements ConstraintValidator<ContactNumberConstraint, String> {
+
+    @Override
+    public void initialize(ContactNumberConstraint contactNumber) {}
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValid(String contactField, ConstraintValidatorContext cxt) {
+        if(contactField == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return contactField.matches("[0-9]+") && (contactField.length() > 8) && (contactField.length() < 14);        
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/model/ValidatedPhone.java b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/model/ValidatedPhone.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f860394707
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/model/ValidatedPhone.java
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package com.baeldung.model;
+
+import com.baeldung.customvalidator.ContactNumberConstraint;
+
+public class ValidatedPhone {
+    
+    @ContactNumberConstraint
+    private String phone;
+
+    public String getPhone() {
+        return phone;
+    }
+
+    public void setPhone(String phone) {
+        this.phone = phone;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/web/controller/ValidatedPhoneController.java b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/web/controller/ValidatedPhoneController.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70b151e066
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/web/controller/ValidatedPhoneController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package com.baeldung.web.controller;
+
+import javax.validation.Valid;
+
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+import org.springframework.ui.Model;
+import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
+
+import com.baeldung.model.ValidatedPhone;
+
+@Controller
+@EnableWebMvc
+public class ValidatedPhoneController {
+
+    @RequestMapping(value="/validatePhone", method=RequestMethod.GET)
+    public String loadFormPage(Model m) {
+            m.addAttribute("validatedPhone", new ValidatedPhone());
+            return "phoneHome";
+    }
+    
+    @RequestMapping(value="/addValidatePhone", method=RequestMethod.POST)
+    public String submitForm(@Valid ValidatedPhone validatedPhone, BindingResult result, Model m) {
+            if(result.hasErrors()) {
+                    return "phoneHome";
+            }
+            
+            m.addAttribute("message", "Successfully saved phone: " + validatedPhone.toString());
+            return "phoneHome";
+    }
+    
+    
+}
diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml
index 4ba9642448..b0a4d4892a 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd" >
-
+<beans 
+    xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd 
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd">
+<mvc:annotation-driven />
+<bean id="validator" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean"/>
 </beans>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/phoneHome.jsp b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/phoneHome.jsp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b873e9bc5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/phoneHome.jsp
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
+<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %>
+
+<!DOCTYPE HTML>
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>Sample Form</title>
+    <style>
+    	body { background-color: #eee; font: helvetica; }
+    	#container { width: 500px; background-color: #fff; margin: 30px auto; padding: 30px; border-radius: 5px; }
+    	.green { font-weight: bold; color: green; }
+    	.message { margin-bottom: 10px; }
+    	label {width:70px; display:inline-block;}
+    	input { display:inline-block; margin-right: 10px; }
+    	form {line-height: 160%; }
+    	.hide { display: none; }
+    	.error { color: red; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; }
+    </style>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+	
+	<div id="container">
+	
+		<h2>Phone Number</h2>
+		<c:if test="${not empty message}"><div class="message green">${message}</div></c:if>
+		
+		<form:form action="/spring-mvc-java/addValidatePhone" modelAttribute="validatedPhone">
+			
+			<label for="phoneInput">Phone: </label>
+			<form:input path="phone" id="phoneInput" />
+			<form:errors path="phone" cssClass="error" />
+			<br/>
+			
+			<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
+		</form:form>
+	</div>
+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/web/controller/CustomMVCValidatorTest.java b/spring-mvc-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/web/controller/CustomMVCValidatorTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..069cc8e141
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/web/controller/CustomMVCValidatorTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package com.baeldung.web.controller;
+
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.get;
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultHandlers.print;
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.model;
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.status;
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.view;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc;
+import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders;
+import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.setup.MockMvcBuilders;
+
+public class CustomMVCValidatorTest {
+    
+    private MockMvc mockMvc;
+    
+    @Before
+    public void setup(){
+        this.mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(new ValidatedPhoneController()).build();
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenPhonePageUri_whenMockMvc_thenReturnsPhonePage() throws Exception{
+        this.mockMvc.perform(get("/validatePhone")).andExpect(view().name("phoneHome"));
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenPhoneURIWithPostAndFormData_whenMockMVC_thenVerifyErrorResponse() throws Exception {
+        this.mockMvc.perform(MockMvcRequestBuilders.post("/addValidatePhone").
+                accept(MediaType.TEXT_HTML).
+                param("phoneInput", "123")).
+                andExpect(model().attributeHasFieldErrorCode("validatedPhone", "phone","ContactNumberConstraint")).
+                andExpect(view().name("phoneHome")).
+                andExpect(status().isOk()).
+                andDo(print());
+    }
+    
+}