This message is an outgrowth of my performance investigations. We are (still?) validating spring XML files by default, at high cost.
We control validation with a system property with a name that doesn't say 'cxf' in it anywhere. I could submit the following change: 1) Add the name org.apache.cxf.spring.validation.mode as a (compatible) replacement for spring.validation.mode. 2) Treat the default as 'none'. Or, I could make the BusApplicationContext force validation off when reading any file with a pathname beginning with META-INF:/cxf (e.g., one of ours), so that users still get validation by default. Please send along thoughts.
