On 09/08/12 19:58, Marek Potociar wrote:
> Experts,
>
> as you know integration with Bean Validation 1.1 specification is one of
> the last major features we would like to see included in JAX-RS 2.0 that
> is not finalized yet. This feature however introduces a dependency in
> JAX-RS 2.0 spec on the BV 1.1 spec. As it turns out, it also means that
> in such case we need to make sure that BV 1.1 specification is released
> before JAX-RS 2.0. Unfortunately, in the last several weeks we haven't
> been successful to get any response from the BV spec leads wrt. our
> questions around their schedule plans.(Bill, any help here would be very
> much appreciated.)
>
> To gain some more time to resolve the situationwe have decided to
> postpone the planned JAX-RS 2.0 final release date to Jan 14 2013.
> Counting backwards using the rules setup in the JCP process, the
> postponed date means following for the up-comming JAX-RS 2.0 milestones:
>
> * *no later than Sept. 17 - JAX-RS 2.0 Public Review period starts*
> o note that we'd like to start sooner if possible to address
> earlier RedHat request for a PR period longer than 30 days.
> * Oct. 17 - JAX-RS 2.0 Public Review period ends
> o this would be a fixed date regardless of how early PR starts
> * Dec. 12 - JAX-RS 2.0 Public Final Draft submitted
> * Dec. 19 - JAX-RS 2.0 Final ballot starts
> * *Jan. 14 - JAX-RS 2.0 Final Release*
>
> Please, note that this revised schedule still places the following date
> constraints on the BV 1.1 spec, otherwise we would have to drop the BV
> 1.1 support from JAX-RS 2.0:
>
> * *no later than Sept. 12 - BV 1.1 Public Review period needs to start*
> o *if this date is not met, we would have to drop BV support*
> * no later than Nov. 19 - BV 1.1 Final ballot needs to start
> * no later than Dec. 10 - BV 1.1 Final Release needs to happen
>
> We sincerely hope the BV 1.1 JSR will be able to meet these dates so
> that we can include the BV 1.1 support in the JAX-RS 2.0. In any case,
> if the dates are not met and BV 1.1 support is dropped from JAX-RS 2.0,
> we would be adding this support later in a maintenance release.
Hope it will actually be the case. I'd rather prefer the remaining time
spent on fine-tuning what is already available in 2.0, many useful
features have been added already
Cheers, Sergey
> It's
> however very unlikely that the maintenance release would be still
> included in Java EE 7.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marek
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