This Week in Spring, December 13, 2011 (Spring 3.1 Edition)
Today saw the release of the Spring framework, version 3.1, the next step in enterprise Java development.
There is a <EM>lot</EM> of other stuff to talk about this week, but we'll
forego them for next week, because there's quite simply too much to look at with Spring 3.1.
Take a look at the following content, and don't forget to download (<A href="http://www.springsource.com/download/community?project=Spring%20Framework&version=3.1.0.RELEASE">direct</a> or <a href="http://www.springsource.org/spring-core#download">maven</a>) and try out the latest and greatest bits today!
And, of course, for all the gritty details of what's new, check out the Spring Framework 3.1 release notes.
Among my favorite new features in this release:
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Comprehensive Java-based application configuration</LI>
</LI> <lI>New caching abstraction
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