Spring Framework 1.0.2 Released

Releases | Thomas Risberg | June 02, 2004 | ...

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Framework 1.0.2.

This release introduces a variety of enhancements throughout the framework, plus some minor bugs fixes.

Among the enhancements in this release are:

  • New "mock" source tree and "spring-mock" jar file, containing JNDI and Servlet API mocks for usage in applications 
  • CachedIntrospectionResults flushes the JavaBeans Introspector cache for proper garbage collection on shutdown
  • Added ObjectFactory interface and ObjectFactoryCreatingFactoryBean, for non-intrusive creation of prototype beans
  • AbstractXmlApplicationContext uses PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver for Ant-style config location patterns

Spring Framework 1.0.1 Released

Releases | Thomas Risberg | April 22, 2004 | ...

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Framework 1.0.1.

This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release;

the most important fixes and new features are:

  • added Struts ActionSupport and DispatchActionSupport base classes, for easy access to a Spring context
  • added Struts ContextLoaderPlugIn and DelegatingActionProxy, superseding Don Brown's Spring Struts Plugin
  • reworked ComponentControllerSupport class for Tiles to be compatible with both Struts 1.1 and Struts 1.2
  • fixed Hibernate/JTA synchronization cleanup in case of Hibernate flushing failure on commit
  • added support for transaction-scoped Hibernate Sessions with plain JTA or EJB CMT, without…

Spring Framework 1.0 Final Released

Releases | Thomas Risberg | March 24, 2004 | ...

We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.0 final has just been released.

1. SCOPE

Spring 1.0 is a complete Java/J2EE application framework, covering the following functionality:
  • the most sophisticated lightweight container available today, with various flavors of setter and constructor injection
  • AOP interception framework based on the AOP Alliance interfaces, integrated with the core container
  • JNDI support classes, allowing for easy wiring of Spring-managed beans with JNDI-located objects
  • application context concept, providing…

Spring Framework 1.0 Release Candidate 2 Released

Releases | Thomas Risberg | March 02, 2004 | ...

We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.0 Release Candidate 2 has just been released. RC2 covers all features targeted for 1.0 final, which should be released soon.


Changes since Release Candidate 1 include:
  • scheduling support via Quartz and Timer
  • support for the SqlMapClient API of iBATIS SQL Maps 2
  • JdbcTemplate convenience methods, taking prepared statement arguments as Object array
  • support for custom RMI socket factories and additional RMI invocation parameters
  • PreferencesPlaceholderConfigurer, resolving placeholders via J2SE 1.4 Preferences
  • optional "type" attribute for "constructor-arg" tag in XML bean definitions
  • revised BeanFactoryLocator implementations
  • simplified AOP Advisor interface hierarchy
  • revised DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer implementation hierarchy
  • extended mapping configuration options in LocalSessionFactoryBean
  • metadata support uses latest Commons Attributes snapshot
  • VelocityView supports Velocity Tools 1.1
A full list of changes is included in the the changelog.

The release can be downloaded here

On a side note: after the 1.0 release, we will be focussing on new features, some of which can be found in our JIRA. Please have a look, but note that list is still subject to change. [2004-03-01]

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