Re: [webbeans-dev] Question about parsing Date fields in XML based metadata

Von: Gavin King <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; Betreff: Re: [webbeans-dev] Question about parsing Date fields in XML based metadata An: "Mark Struberg" <struberg(a)yahoo.de&gt;, "Java Community Process JSR #299 Expert List" <JSR-299-EG(a)jcp.org&gt; CC: webbeans-dev(a)lists.jboss.org Datum: Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2009, 12:41 Thanks Mark, fwding to the group. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Mark Struberg <struberg(a)yahoo.de&gt; wrote: > Hi! > > It's a bit late so please excuse me if my thoughts/sentences are a bit weird. > > The web_beans-1.0-pr-spec has the following definition in section 9.2.5: >> The initial value of a field of type java.util.Date or >> java.util.Calendar is specified using a format that can be >> parsed by java.text.DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().parse(). > > Now my question: DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance() is Locale aware. This may not always be positive. > > I'm working on international projects, and if I build a WAR in vienna (Locale de_AT), and my colleagues in mountain view (Locale US) and Bangalore (maybe Locale hi_IN) like to deploy it, then it's very likely that they get parsing exceptions for e.g. default values provided via web-beans XML definition, isn't it? > > Shouldn't we better use e.g. the xs:dateTime format like in SOAP? > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime > SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"); > > > Another question: > Let's say I have a Calendar field in MyWebBean.java. Which kind of Calendar should it actually inject? GregorianCalendar? Or should it throw a DefinitionException? (Generall question about handling of abstract members)