News & Events

It's Spring time

We are pleased to announce that Spring 1.2 RC1 has just been released. This release introduces a number of major new 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 also contains many minor enhancements, for example:

• factored out BindingErrorProcessor strategy for ServletRequestDataBinder
• improved ParameterMethodNameResolver for Web MVC MultiActionController

For a detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes, see the changelog.

This release candidate is already considered stable and recommended for
development use. We expect Spring 1.2 final to be released in late April.

Watch out for the Spring Web Flow preview release to follow later this week
(for use with Spring 1.2)! Web Flow will also become part of the nightly
build at that time.