<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Emmanuel Bernard <<a href="mailto:emmanuel.bernard@jboss.com">emmanuel.bernard@jboss.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> June 18, 2009 17:47:12<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Java Community Process JSR #303 Expert List <<a href="mailto:JSR-303-EG@JCP.ORG">JSR-303-EG@JCP.ORG</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Limiting Default and @GroupSequence</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>In order to keep group sequences as orthogonal as possible to the idea of Default overriding I was thinking of restricting what can be done here.<br>More specifically, I would like to add the following sentence in the spec:<br><br>Groups part of a sequence overriding Default on a class Z (@GroupSequence) cannot be used in any other group or sequence.<br><br>This would allow the sequence computations to be more easily independent of the class they are applied on. I was trying to find a use case where this would interfere but I have not so far.<br><br>WDYT?<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>