News & Events

We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.1 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release.
 
Among the new features in this release are:

• "import" element for XML bean definitions
• support for non-public classes and non-public init and destroy methods
• bean factory regards bean references for correct destruction order (not requiring "depends-on")
• bean factory detects JDK 1.4 and Commons Collections for linked/identity map creation
• factored out the "publishEvent" method into the ApplicationEventPublisher interface
• included new "test" package in mock JAR, offering superclasses for tests requiring Spring contexts
• added "applyQueryTimeout" method to the JdoDialect interface
• added "addAttribute" and "getAttribute" methods to RemoteInvocation
• explicit support for EHCache via EhCacheManagerFactoryBean and EhCacheFactoryBean
• SimpleMessageConverter102 handles BytesMessage without JMS 1.1's "getBodyLength" method
• added JmsGatewaySupport convenience base class
• added ServletForwardingController and ServletWrappingController
• BindStatus and BindTag can be created without Errors instance in the request too
• changed MessageTag's "arguments" attribute to Object
• added "javaScriptEscape" attribute to MessageTag
• added EscapeBodyTag aka "spring:escapeBody"

As always, have a look at the changelog for details.
Downloads are available through the SourceForge project page