We are pleased to announce that Spring
Framework 1.1 Release Candidate 2
is available. This will be the
last release candidate for 1.1; release 1.1 final can be expected very
soon.
Among the new features in this release are:
- the
new HTTP invoker remoting
strategy, which uses Java serialization over HTTP (combining the
strengths of RMI and Hessian)
- RemoteInvocationFactory
and
RemoteInvocationExecutor strategies for HTTP/RMI invoker, for
additional invocation context
- basic
JSF support in the form of a
JSF VariableResolver implementation that is aware of Spring-managed
middle tier beans
- form
simplification macros for
Velocity and FreeMarker, providing HTML input macros etc for easy form
building
- DispatcherServlet
looks for handler
adapters, handler mappings, exception res., view res. in ancestor
contexts as well
- HibernateTransactionManager
and
HibernateInterceptor support per-transaction entity interceptor
instances
- WebLogicJtaTransactionManager
which
can resume a WebLogic JTA transaction even if it was marked
rollback-only
- MimeMessageHelper
provides
"addInline" methods for adding inline elements with content IDs
(referenced via "cid:xxx")
- Errors
interface provides
"pushNestedPath"/"popNestedPath" methods, for convenient handling of
temporary nested paths
- Spring's
Resource objects support a
"createRelative" operation, for resource paths relative to the given
one
Important changes and bugfixes include:
- a
constructor argument value without
index will now just be considered once, rather than matched multiple
times
- introduced
BeanDefinitionReader
interface and reworked XmlBeanDefinitionParser SPI (warning: not
backwards-compatible)
- fixed
TransactionAspectSupport's
after-returning behavior to always call commit even if transaction is
not new
- SchedulerFactoryBean
reschedules
triggers in case of "overwriteExistingJobs", to update triggers of
persistent jobs
- fixed
JmsTemplate102's "doSend"
implementation to properly work with a JMS 1.0.2 API jar in the
classpath
See the
changelog
for details.
The release can be downloaded
here 
