Any geronimo feedback for Matt? --kevan On Dec 2, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Matt Benson wrote:
> Hi all; apologies for the cross-post. For some time in the Apache > Bean Validation podling we intentionally lagged to the 1.0.3.GA > version of the Bean Validation TCK because it was our understanding > that this was the version included in the larger EE TCKs which > Geronimo, and now TomEE, must satisfy. This became a real problem > with the release of version 1.0.5.GA of the TCK, which addressed a bug > in the original RI *and* TCK so severe that it is literally impossible > for a given codebase to satisfy the Bean Validation TCK >= 1.0.5.GA > and < 1.0.5.GA simultaneously. After releasing bval-0.3-incubating, > we voted for forward progress and made our code compatible with the > 1.0.5.GA TCK. Recently I raised the issue on the Bean Validation > specification development list, and was informed by Emmanuel Bernard > that the Bean Validation TCK *has* in fact been updated in Java EE, to > version 1.0.6.GA, which our current trunk also passes. [1] Now I'd > like to establish a comfort level among our communities that Geronimo > and TomEE will be able to use future releases of Apache Bean > Validation, for when we release 0.4-incubating (or perhaps 1.0, as a > TLP), your projects will not be able to upgrade the BV implementation > without also upgrading the corresponding TCK, or (as I am ignorant of > the procedures wrt the EE TCK) obtaining an updated version of the EE > TCK which in fact contains the updated BV TCK. > > Thanks for your attention, > Matt > > [1] > http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/beanvalidation-dev/2011-December/000103.html
