IM log If you look at the spec, I've [...] the implementation details. Anybody is free to "implement" the API
Which is what we did for JPA-API, Persistence.java is implemented differently in Sun's and our implementation The spec defines the public (and protected) contract of the APIs incl Validation not the implementation Hardy Ferentschik what's about the test harness then? to be an official BV implementation you have to pass the tests against our javax.validation, right? Emmanuel Bernard I don't think so. you could put yours. actually that's the case because the test harness is supposed to test for sig conformance On Jul 16, 2009, at 06:08, Hardy Ferentschik wrote: > Hi, > > the current spec says section 4.4.5 Validation: > > "The Validation implementation provided by the Bean Validation > provider must not contain any non private attrib- > ute or method aside from the three public static bootstrap > methods: ... " > > Given that Validation is not an interface and part of the API - how > can an implementor provide its own implementation? > Shouldn't this whole pragraph be removed? > > --Hardy _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org http://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev