On Apr 11, 2005 11:40 AM, Heath Borders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ideally all API jars should be exactly compatible (down to protected > methods), so that it shouldn't matter if someone uses a Sun API with a > MyFaces impl.
For the record, as specifically related to the method and variable signatures, absolute compatibility is a requirement, not an ideal. No implementation can introduce protected or public variables in the API classes beyond what the spec defines, and the TCK will have tests to verify this. Functional equivalence of the implemented behavior, of course, is a different story. Craig
