[hibernate-dev] [BV] How can a Bean Validation provider have its own Validation implementation

[Emmanuel Bernard]

IM log

If you look at the spec, I've [...] the implementation details.  
Anybody is free to "implement" the API

Which is what we did for JPA-API, Persistence.java is implemented  
differently in Sun's and our implementation
The spec defines the public (and protected) contract of the APIs incl  
Validation not the implementation


Hardy Ferentschik
what's about the test harness then?
to be an official BV implementation you have to pass the tests against  
our javax.validation, right?

Emmanuel Bernard
I don't think so. you could put yours. actually that's the case  
because the test harness is supposed to test for sig conformance

On  Jul 16, 2009, at 06:08, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the current spec says section 4.4.5 Validation:
>
> "The Validation implementation provided by the Bean Validation  
> provider must not contain any non private attrib-
> ute or method aside from the three public static bootstrap  
> methods: ... "
>
> Given that Validation is not an interface and part of the API - how  
> can an implementor provide its own implementation?
> Shouldn't this whole pragraph be removed?
>
> --Hardy