Hi all,
All the releases are done and I've just sent the 2.0.0.Final versions of the spec artifacts to the JCP.
They should be available for download from the
jcp.org JSR page within the next few days. We'll push out announcements on
beanvalidation.org and the Hibernate blog (for the RI) on Monday (as announcements on Friday tend to get less exposure).
Once the Final artifacts are on
jcp.org, the Expert Group's work on Bean Validation 2.0 is complete, and as per the JCP rules it officially disbands. I.e. we're done!
Thanks a lot to everyone for their hard work and contributions to this JSR. Your efforts are truly appreciated. It has been a pleasure for me to work with all of you on this JSR. I especially enjoyed the open, friendly and productive style of collaboration. I think we can be very proud on what we achieved -- it's a nice package of very useful functionality we've added to BV.
So what's next? Let's all relax and think about something other than Bean Validation for a while :)
After that, I certainly can envision a future BV 2.1, addressing some of the things we didn't get to work on this time around, e.g. better support for fully self-contained constraint libraries, an API for constraint declaration (using Lambdas?) or perhaps a reactive flavour of the API which could be useful for UI-centric use cases. Also support for Java 9 modules and Java 10 value types will be interesting.
But let's talk about the details at another time ;)
Thanks again and all the best,
--Gunnar