What does 'GA' mean for sourcecode?

Question

What does GA stand for?

Like: 1.0.0.GA - Bean Validation (JSR-303)

Answer 1

It means General availability or general acceptance.

To quote wikipedia:

General availability or general acceptance (GA) is the point where all necessary commercialization activities have been completed and the software has been made available to the general market either via the web or physical media.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle

Answer 2

GA stands for GENERAL AVAILABILITY in a software release.