Hi Ed, if you ask for introduction of change 1, you should also ask for 2 - 1 without 2 doesn't make much sense, right? FWIW, for me Emmanuel's statement makes much sense - convention over configuration, and a way to overrule convention by configuration is all we should need! regards, Martin On 3/10/09, Ed Burns <Ed.Burns(a)sun.com&gt; wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:41:16 -0800, Ed Burns <Ed.Burns(a)Sun.COM&gt; >>>>>> said: > > EB> Change 1 Default default validator > EB> Change 2 Default value for VALIDATE_EMPTY_FIELDS > EB> Change 3 isDefault on @FacesValidator > > I have taken Change 1 to the EE architecture team to ask for guidance, > since, as Emmanuel points out, our decision on this point is an > opportunity to influence the programming model used for EE6. > > I'll let you know how it goes today. > > Ed > > -- > | ed.burns(a)sun.com | office: 408 884 9519 OR x31640 > | homepage: | http://ridingthecrest.com/ > > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces