Okay, I see now where I've gone wrong. I mistakenly interpreted
"mapping" resources as encompassing configuration/bootstrap
information as well. *Mapping* resources are processed by a given
ValidationProvider; *Configuration* resources are processed by the
Configuration. I see now that ConfigurationSource is more or less a
"stringified" version of ConfigurationState plus the default provider
classname, minus #ignoreXmlMapping().
My apologies for the confusion, and thanks for your patience! ;)
No problem. This way I can discard my rather lengthy response I started
writing :-)
--Hardy