I would vote for 2. Make it strict by default so that users know what happens and ask the other party to start thinking about being compliant. (for a better compliant world) But being able to turn off the strict compliance, because we know how long it can be to get that fixed (or how expensive to upgrade). (There might be other places in the future where we will want to have that option) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4137856#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...