[bv-dev] Namespace for XML descriptors

[Guillaume Smet]

Hi,

I like the idea. Would go for bean-validation though, instead of validation.

-- 
Guillaume

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The XML descriptors in BV (validation.xml, constraint mapping XML files)
> use a jboss.org specific namespace as of 1.1. We should change that into
> something under jcp.org [1] which is what all other descriptors of Java
> EE techs do as of Java EE 7 (see Antonio Goncalves' blog post on this topic
> at [2]).
>
> What's rather unclear to me is why most of techs share the same namespace "
> http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee", e.g. JSF, CDI and Servlet as per
> Antonio's post. I think having a specific names space for BV is more
> sensible (as done by JPA, too), not the least because BV isn't tied to EE.
>
> So I'd suggest to use
>
> * http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/validation" (for validation.xml)
> * http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/validation/mapping" (for constraint
> validation mapping files)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Gunnar
>
> [1] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/BVAL-455
> [2] https://antoniogoncalves.org/2013/06/04/java-ee-7-
> deployment-descriptors/
>
>
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