Spring 3.1 M2: Configuration Enhancements
As Juergen mentioned in his post yesterday, and as I've mentioned in my previous posts on 3.1 M1, one of the major themes of Spring 3.1 is completing our vision for code-based configuration in Spring. We think a modern enterprise Java application should have a choice between Java and XML as first class options for its configuration. In this post we'll see how Spring 3.1 M2 helps make this a reality.
Note that although Java-based configuration has been available since Spring 3.0, with this release it is now on par with many more of the XML-based features that have been developed over the…