Apache BVal Report April 2012

The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation 1.0 (JSR-303) specification and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the foundation on February 15, 2012.

Releases

BVal version 0.3-incubating was released April 28, 2011. The PMC is currently voting to release BVal 0.4 RC1, which will be integrated into OpenEJB's imminent TomEE release.

Activity

Recent activity has focused on the 0.4 release, with an eye to the project's long-term goals (e.g. minimizing dependencies). Our next goals are to continue improving the codebase so that we can make, as soon as possible, a 1.0 release with the best possible interface with which to provide reliability to our user base. Discussions in this regard have already begun.

Traffic on the user mailing list remains low/nonexistent. As always, we consider that to be merely in the nature of providing an implementation of a wider-known specification: the reference implementation gets the user traffic.

We continue to follow the progress of the Bean Validation specification; its 1.1.0 version is being developed under Red Hat's (open) leadership as JSR-349. Certain of the features of specification version 1.1.0 duplicate custom functionality already implemented in BVal; these must of course be merged. Apache BVal will implement Bean Validation v1.1.0 as soon as is practical.

Community

The composition of the team has not changed since graduation, at which time all committers became members of the inaugural PMC. The PMC is quite diverse and we are satisfied that no entity has undue influence in our decision-making process.

Branding

The task of creating a new project logo remains open, though some positive discussion has taken place and seems to be heading in the direction of satisfying interested parties.

No concerns at present.

Infrastructure

We have some outstanding features we'd like to implement on our project website (specifically a news or blog feed), and may seek advice and/or support from infrastructure to accomplish this.