whatever the list is IMO, the point was already mentionned: how many times did you use "bv" to say bean validation? You never say "Java Persistence API" but always jpa, for bval that's the opposite IMO.
I commonly see bval or beanvalidation but not others. *Romain Manni-Bucau* *Twitter: @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau>* *Blog: **http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/*<http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/> *LinkedIn: **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau* *Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau* 2013/6/16 John D. Ament <[email protected]> > Gerhard, > > They may use [bv-dev] as a prefix, but the mailing list name is > beanvalidation-dev. > > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Gerhard Petracek < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > hi john, > > > > please check e.g. the official eg/dev list [1]. > > the subject of mails starts with "[bv-dev]" > > > > regards, > > gerhard > > > > [1] http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/beanvalidation-dev/ > > > > > > > > 2013/6/16 John D. Ament <[email protected]> > > > > > gerhard/thomas > > > > > > The problem I have with "bv" is that no one refers to BeanValidation as > > bv > > > (in fact, Bean Validation is the shortened form of JavaBeans > Validation). > > > Doing a quick google search on bv shows me some STDs. Since google is > > > typically stalking me and knows I ask lots of programming questions, it > > > would typically return the programming references first. > > > > > > Doing a google search for "bv bean validation" shows > beanvalidation.org, > > > however there are no references to bv on that site. > > > > > > romain > > > > > > Yes, I think using "bval" ties us closely to the Apache impl. > > > > > > I think I generally prefer longer names. For example, we chose > > > partial-bean rather than pb. If it were bean-val instead of beanval, > > would > > > anyone mind that? > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Gerhard Petracek < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > hi john, > > > > > > > > in codi we used bv1 (like jpa1, jsf12, jsf20,...). > > > > if we don't plan to support multiple versions with separated > modules, i > > > > tend to like just "bv" (since we use "jpa" and "jsf" for the modules > of > > > the > > > > corresponding specs). > > > > > > > > regards, > > > > gerhard > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2013/6/16 Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > As a short name bval is fine but maybe too close of apache impl. So > > id > > > > use > > > > > bean-validation. Being explicit is good when naming things > > > > > Le 16 juin 2013 15:25, "John D. Ament" <[email protected]> a > > > écrit > > > > : > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > > > > > > > One of the comments in the introduction of a Bean Validation > module > > > is > > > > > that > > > > > > the name I gave it isn't descriptive/useful. I chose the name > > > > "beanval" > > > > > > since it was a shortened version of "Bean Validation" that could > > > easily > > > > > be > > > > > > read via maven. To me, it's descriptive of being related to > JSR303 > > > > > > support. > > > > > > > > > > > > One of the other names proposed is "bv." > > > > > > > > > > > > If anyone has any recommended names, or questions about the given > > > > names, > > > > > > could you speak up? > > > > > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
