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

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: 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) txs in advance and LieGrue, strub ---------------------------------------------------------------- “Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind!” (Sir Terry Pratchett)