F/validation.xml</code> file.
 <p>
 <b>Note</b>:
 <br>
 Implementations are encouraged to lazily build this object to delay parsing.</div>
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<dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
<dd>returns an instance of <a href="../../javax/validation/BootstrapConfiguration.html" title="interface in javax.validation"><code>BootstrapConfiguration</code></a>; this method never
         returns <code>null</code>; if there is no <code>META-INF/validation.xml</code> the
         different getters of the return