Spring 1.2 RC1 has been released. The changelog lists the following major features:
- finer-grained distribution jar files, alongside the full spring.jar
- AOP Alliance interfaces are now contained in spring-aop.jar and spring.jar
- XML bean definition improvements ("ref" and "value" shortcut attributes etc)
- improved AOP TargetSourceCreator mechanism (supporting
LazyInitTargetSource too) - transaction annotation support for JDK 1.5+ (annotation called "Transactional")
- improved WebLogicJtaTransactionManager (transaction names, isolation levels)
- SqlRowSet support for JDBC (in conjunction with JdbcTemplate's "queryForRowSet")
- Hibernate3 support (in orm.hibernate3; Hibernate 2.1 support is still available)
- JMX support for export of Spring beans as managed resources and for MBean access
- Commons Attributes and JDK 1.5+ annotations for JMX MBean export
This release candidate is already considered stable and recommended for development use. We expect Spring 1.2 final to be released in late April.If you're a Spring user, you should probably try this release out. If you're not, do you see any changes in this release to make you look into Spring?
Links:
- Spring Framework
- Download Spring 1.2 RC1
- Changelog