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[javaee-spec users] Re: How can serious TCK issues be addressed?

From: Mark Struberg <struberg_at_yahoo.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:55:02 +0100 (BST)

Oh that's great news!

Somehow I did not noticed that change, but it's really a great move forward!

txs and LieGrue,
strub





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> From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_oracle.com>
>To: Mark Struberg <struberg_at_yahoo.de>; "users_at_javaee-spec.java.net" <users_at_javaee-spec.java.net>
>Sent: Monday, 21 October 2013, 20:22
>Subject: [javaee-spec users] Re: How can serious TCK issues be addressed?
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>The confidentiality restriction you refer to was removed in the latest version of the JCP, and should not be present in the current TCK licenses.  The TCK code is still proprietary, but you can talk about TCK results.
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>Mark Struberg wrote on 10/20/13 11:21 PM:
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>Yes, you can challenge those TCK tests if they contradict the spec and a sane mind would call it broken or unspecified. Of course only if the exact behaviour was not already tested in old TCKs as well ;) Just create a JIRA.
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>>The JavaEE6 WebProfile spec e.g. explicitely says in WP2.3  that
        only WAR files need to be supported, but the TCK probably also
        seems to test EAR deployment.
>>Or at least that's what I've heard others saying that the TCK
        does, because we are still not allowed to talk about many of the
        TCKs because they have a clause in the TCK license which forbids
        us to talk about their details in public. This is really a pain
        and the next round of JCP upgrade should not only address JSRs
        but only their TCK licenses, pretty please!
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