<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Concise and pretty much inlined with what I had in mind. A must read.<div><br><div><div>On 2 nov. 2011, at 05:11, Jagadish Prasath Ramu wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi :<br><br>Forwarding an email in javaee-spec-users forum on backward compatibility<br>requirements that will be applicable for all specifications.<br><br>Thanks,<br>-Jagadish<br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Bill Shannon <<a href="mailto:bill.shannon@oracle.com">bill.shannon@oracle.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">31 octobre 2011 22:50:59 HNEC<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:jsr342-experts@javaee-spec.java.net">jsr342-experts@javaee-spec.java.net</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Nigel Deakin <<a href="mailto:nigel.deakin@oracle.com">nigel.deakin@oracle.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[javaee-spec users] [jsr342-experts] backwards compatibility requirements</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:jsr342-experts@javaee-spec.java.net">jsr342-experts@javaee-spec.java.net</a><br></span></div><br><br>For years we've been following a set of rules to ensure a high degree of<br>backwards compatibility from release to release of Java EE. While many<br>of these rules should be obvious, we haven't written them down explicitly.<br>Until now.<br><br>Nigel Deakin, JMS spec lead, took the initiative to write these down for<br>the JMS expert group. Thanks, Nigel! These rules are applicable to all<br>of our specs. Hopefully you'll recognize these as consistent with what<br>we've been doing with the Java platform for the past 15 years.<br><br><a href="http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/pages/CompatibilityRequirements">http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/pages/CompatibilityRequirements</a><br><br>Let me know if you have any questions.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bill<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>beanvalidation-dev mailing list<br>beanvalidation-dev@lists.jboss.org<br>https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/beanvalidation-dev<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>