I am working on "GERONIMO-5222 Add support for application validation descriptor support for deployed applications". I have not come across anything in Java EE 6 spec that says what is to be done in the case where there are errors in validation.xml. Current implementation in Geronimo, if validation.xml parsing errors will result in an exception at runtime. I think Geronimo should be throwing deployment time exceptions if validation.xml parsing results in an error. Also, should we extend this to checking the constraint mapping xml files as well (atleast check if the constraint mapping xml files exist in the deployment bundle). What do others think?
-- Vamsi
