[bv-dev] Bean Validation and OSGi (was: "Re: Bean Validation and JavaFX")

Hi, improving the experience of using BV with OSGi is still something I'd like to see moving forward. Based on a recent discussion about adding OSGi support to Hibernate ORM [1], I'm starting to think the right way for dealing with this would be to have a chapter on BV integration as part of the Enterprise OSGi spec (which is maintained by the OSGi community). This spec describes the integration of other Java EE technologies (JTA, JDBC, JPA etc.) into OSGi, so adding BV there would be quite natural. Of course BV implementations could still work towards this as long as there is no standardized approach. AFAICS that has worked quite well in the JPA area, too (there was some proprietary OSGi support in EclipseLink which was deprecated/dropped when Enterprise OSGi arrived with standardized JPA support). We could facilitate such implementations by adding an OSGi manifest to the BV spec JAR [3]. --Gunnar [1] https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7527 [2] http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release5 [3] https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/BVAL-304 2012/8/23 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org&gt;: