A possible enhancement for GlassFish 3.1 is to support application
versioning (
http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=ApplicationVersioning
).
The proposal so far has used the semi-colon (';') as the separator
between the application name and the version.
We are considering changing this to the colon (':') which would give
us two advantages:
1. It is much closer to the maven scheme which uses colons as
separators in its coordinate strings.
2. Using the semi-colon would require users to enclose the
name;version string in single quotes on some OS shells to prevent the
shell from interpreting the semi-colon as a separator between two OS
commands.
Please let us know if you see other advantages or disadvantages of the
change.
- Tim