hibernate validator without using autowire

Question

I'am currently working on a Jersey project and decided to use Hibernate validator for the parameter validations. All dependencies injected on the Endpoint classes are properly initialized. However for those dependencies in the ConstraintValidator classes, it always throw a NPE. So i followed the guide on Spring+hibernate guide and registered

bean id="validator" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean"

and used the @Autowired annotation for the services in the ConstraintValidator class which needs to be injected.

are there side effects of using it? Is there a way to avoid the autowiring annotation in ConstraintValidator class and still injecting the values? I tried manually registering the constraintValidator class in the context as bean, adding a property reference to the service that i need, however it throws a null pointer exception.