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 ( supportingLazyInitTargetSource 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 exportThey also anticipate Spring Web Flow becoming part of the nightly build and distribution later this week.
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If You're A Spring User, You Should Probably Try This Release Out. If you're not, do you see any change?
Links:
Spring Framework Download Spring 1.2 RC1 Changelog
