Hi everyone
The Reference Implementation is out http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/validator/trunk/

Simply do and start playing.

There is a nice introduction by Gunnay on how to use the RI. Check it out http://musingsofaprogrammingaddict.blog ... beans.html

I checked out the reference implementation and I noticed quite a lot of API changes

Some things renamed: method in StandardConstraint, new version is better!
Constraints moved to subpackage: OK!

Others disappeared: ElementDescriptor.getElementType() - good, that it is gone!

Or added: javax.validation.Context, bootstrap types, new annotations like OverridesParameter (while @OverridesParameters still does not exist in the reference implementation - unfinished??), ...

I see the implementation already in the SVN-repository and read some excerpt of the bootstrap-chapter of the new spec, but what I am really missing is the "new specification draft" as a download somewhere (preferrably on http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr303/).
Where is it?

I am currently working on an update of the JSR303-implementation at http://code.google.com/p/agimatec-validation/ and the current spec would help me a lot to get the implementation compatible with the javax.validation-interfaces from the reference implementation.

i was using an pre-RI version from agimatec-validation and now upgrading to the current RI version. The current PDF from jcp.org seems to be outdated and I would like to see an updated spec, too.

The spec 1.0 beta3 is here. http://in.relation.to/10679.lace

Hi,
I would like to know if there is any space for extensions/suggestions or cooperation on the validation project, and, if so, who to contact for that.
The thing is that my group and I have actually developed a validator ourselves in parallel to the jsr 303, before the final draft was out (we actually thought the project was dead at the time since no specs were available).
It turned out that we came to develop practically identical solutions, but we still pushed it a bit further than the jsr 303, and we wondered whether it could be interesting to discuss such solutions for a possible future extension.

Hi,
Yes proposals and contributions are very welcome.
This can happen at two levels:
- Hibernate Validator (faster and more open)
- Bean Validation the spec (slower and more strict)

In both cases, the best is to contact Hardy and me. I'd say the hibernate-dev list is the easiest.
#hibernate-dev on freenode works as well and finally you can open tickets on the issue tracker
http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... /browse/HV
http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... rowse/BVAL