We
are pleased to announce that
Spring
Framework 1.1.3 has
just
been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release in the
1.1 series; most importantly, JDK 1.3 compatibility is fully restored.
Among the new features in this release are:
- added
"setResourceLoader" method to
GenericApplicationContext, for overriding the default resource loading
strategy
- added
FileSystemResourceLoader,
resolving paths as file system resources rather than as class path
resources
- BeanWrapperImpl
automatically
registers a default ResourceArrayPropertyEditor
- added
CustomCollectionEditor, by
default registered to convert between Set, SortedSet and List (when
necessary)
- added
"fileEncoding" and
"propertiesPersister" properties to PropertyResourceConfigurer
- reworked
DefaultListableBeanFactory's "getBeansOfType" to return FactoryBean
instances when passed a FactoryBean type
- DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser
resolves "set" tag as LinkedHashSet on JDK 1.4, falling back to HashSet
on JDK 1.3
- factored
out
AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext as base class of
AbstractXmlApplicationContext
- added
"setIgnoreUnknownFields"
method to DataBinder, enforcing request parameters to match fields when
turned "false"
- added
"execute(ConnectionCallback)"
method to JdbcTemplate, allowing any kind of operation on a given
Connection
- added
DB2SequenceMaxValueIncrementer, implementing the
DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer interface for a DB2 sequence
- fixed
Hibernate/JTA synchronization
to also work with EJB remote transaction propagation (with >1
thread
involved)
- added
"transactionConfigClass" and
"transactionConfigProperties" customization properties to
SqlMapClientFactoryBean
- added
optional "proxyInterface"
property to JndiObjectFactoryBean, for exposing a proxy rather than the
plain object
- added
"lookupOnStartup" and "cache"
properties to JndiObjectFactoryBean, allowing for lazy lookup on first
access etc
- added
"codebaseUrl" property to
HttpInvokerClientInterceptor, specifying a URL for dynamic class
download
- added
support for dynamic class
downloading to AbstractHttpInvokerRequestExecutor and its subclasses
- DispatcherServlet
by default cleans
up request attributes after include request (configurable via
"cleanupOnInclude")
- UrlBasedViewResolver
supports a
"forward:" prefix too, for forwards to other controllers through
special view names
- added
"attributes" (Properties) and
"attributesMap" (Map) properties to UrlBasedViewResolver, for static
attributes
- InternalResourceView
performs an
include if the response has already been committed (-> forward
not
possible anymore)
- JstlView
and TilesJstlView respect a
JSTL "localizationContext" config in web.xml, checking those messages
first
- added
overloaded
"createVelocityContext" and "exposeHelpers" methods to VelocityView,
with passed-in servlet response
- added
"toolAttributes" property to
VelocityView, taking attribute name / tool class name pairs for tools
to expose
- added
JasperReportsXxxView to allow
for convenient rendering of CSV/HTML/PDF/XLS web views with Jasper
Reports
- added
MappingDispatchActionSupport
class, as convenience subclass of Struts 1.2's MappingDispatchAction
As always, have a look at the
changelog
for details.
Downloads are available through the SourceForge project
page 
