Hey Gunnar, Hey all, thank you very much for the introduction. I'm very happy to be part of this expert group. A few words about myself: My name is Christian Kaltepoth. I'm senior developer with ingenit in Dortmund, Germany. I've been working with Java EE for many many years. And I've been using BV since the first release especially in the context of JPA, JAX-RS and JAX-WS. As Gunnar already mentioned I'm also member of the JSR 371 (MVC 1.0) expert group and worked a lot on the BV integration in the spec and in the RI. I'm also a regular open source contributor and involved in projects like Apache DeltaSpike, Rewrite, Togglz and a frequent speaker at conferences I'm looking forward to work with you on BV 2.0. My special interest is the alignment with Java 8 and to improve the integration with other specifications, especially JAX-RS and MVC 1.0. I'll try to catch up with the current discussions and proposals in the next days. Christian 2016-09-04 15:22 GMT+02:00 Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt;: -- Christian Kaltepoth Blog: http://blog.kaltepoth.de/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/chkal GitHub: https://github.com/chkal