Spring Web Flow 1st preview release is out

Releases | Colin Sampaleanu | March 30, 2005 | ...

We are pleased to announce a preview release of Spring Web Flow for use with the Spring 1.2 release path.  With this release, we consider the web flow system fit for development use.

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Contained in this release are new features we expect to take web applications with demanding page flow requirements to the next level.  These include:

  • The ability to capture the logical page flows of your application as self-contained modules reusable in multiple situations.
  • The ability to nest flows 'n' levels deep (as subflows), where each flow is a "black-box" adhering to a well-defined contract for input/output.
  • The ability to express page flows declaratively, with a pluggable flow definition format (currently Java-based and XML-based builder formats are provided.)

Spring Framework 1.2RC1 Released

Releases | admin | March 28, 2005 | ...
It's Spring time Smile

We are pleased to announce that Spring 1.2 RC1 has just been released. This release introduces a number of major new features:
  • finer-grained distribution jar files, alongside the full spring.jar
  • AOP Alliance interfaces are now contained in spring-aop.jar and spring.jar

  • XML bean definition improvements ("ref" and "value" shortcut attributes
    etc)
  • improved AOP TargetSourceCreator mechanism (supporting
    LazyInitTargetSource too)

  • transaction annotation support for JDK 1.5+ (annotation called
    "Transactional")
  • improved WebLogicJtaTransactionManager (transaction names, isolation
    levels)

  • SqlRowSet support for JDBC (in conjunction with JdbcTemplate's
    "queryForRowSet")
  • Hibernate3 support (in orm.hibernate3; Hibernate 2.1 support is still
    available)

  • JMX support for export of Spring beans as managed resources and for MBean
    access
  • Commons Attributes and JDK 1.5+ annotations for JMX MBean export

    This release also contains many minor enhancements, for example:

  • factored out BindingErrorProcessor strategy for ServletRequestDataBinder
  • improved ParameterMethodNameResolver for Web MVC MultiActionController

  • For a detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes, see the changelog.

    This release candidate is already considered stable and recommended for development use. We expect Spring 1.2 final to be released in late April.

    Watch out for the Spring Web Flow preview release to follow later this week (for use with Spring 1.2)! Web Flow will also become part of the nightly build at that time.

    Spring Framework 1.1.5 Released

    Releases | Colin Sampaleanu | February 28, 2005 | ...

    We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.5 has just been released.


    This is the last bug fix and minor enhancement release in the 1.1.x series, featuring many minor improvements such as:
    • added overloaded "reject" and rejectValue" methods without default message to Errors interface and BindException
    • added "lookup(name, requiredType)" convenience method to JndiTemplate, matching the JNDI object against the given type
    • added "homeInterface" property to AbstractRemoteSlsbInvokerInterceptor, for specifying the home interface to narrow to
    • introduced MailMessage interface as common interface for SimpleMailMessage and JavaMail MIME messages
    • Log4jConfigurer accepts a "classpath:" URL or a "file:" URL as location too, not just a plain file path
    • Log4jConfigurer accepts config files that do not reside in the file system, as long as there is no refresh interval

    • added "int[] batchUpdate(String[] sql)" method to JdbcTemplate, for executing a group of SQL statements as a batch
    • added C3P0NativeJdbcExtractor for C3P0 0.8.5 or later (for earlier C3P0 versions, use SimpleNativeJdbcExtractor)
    • added "maxRows" bean property to JdbcTemplate, allowing to specify the maximum number of rows to be fetched
    • added "fetchSize" and "maxRows" bean properties to RdbmsOperation, passing the values to the internal JdbcTemplate
    • added ClobStringTypeHandler, BlobByteArrayTypeHandler and BlobSerializableTypeHandler for iBATIS SQL Maps 2.0.9
    • ResourceHolderSupport throws TransactionTimedOutException if no time-to-live left (before attempting an operation)
    • TransactionSynchronization objects can influence their execution order through implementing the Ordered interface
    • JtaTransactionManager is able to work with a JTA TransactionManager only (i.e. without a UserTransaction handle)

    • upgraded MockHttpServletRequest to Servlet API 2.4 (added getRemotePort, getLocalName, getLocalAddr, getLocalPort)
    • upgraded MockPageContext to JSP API 2.0 (added getExpressionEvaluator, getVariableResolver, overloaded include)
    • added "contextOverride" option to ServletContextPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, letting web.xml override local settings
    • added "searchContextAttributes" option to ServletContextPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, resolving context attributes
    • added "clear" and "isEmpty" methods to ModelAndView, allowing to clear the view of a given ModelAndView object
    • added JasperReportsMultiFormatView, allowing to specify the output format dynamically via a discriminator in the model
    • JSP EL expressions in Spring's JSP tags will be parsed with JSP 2.0 ExpressionEvaluator on JSP 2.0 (Jakarta JSTL else)
    • changed "spring:transform" tag's "value" attribute from String to Object, to allow for expressions resolved by JSP 2.0
    Please see the changelog for details.

    Our next milestone is 1.2 RC1, which we intend to release as soon as possible: with Hibernate3 support, JMX support and further major new features. Nightly 1.2-dev snapshots with Hibernate3 support and JMX support will be available within a few days, so feel free to give 1.2 an early try
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    Spring Framework 1.1.4 Released

    Releases | Colin Sampaleanu | January 31, 2005 | ...

    We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.4 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release in the 1.1 series.

            </span>Among the new
    

    features are:

    • added LazyInitTargetSource, lazily accessing a singleton from a BeanFactory (lazily initializing on first call)
    • added ServiceLocatorFactoryBean, allowing to map custom service locator interface methods to BeanFactory.getBean calls
    • reworked ResourcePatternResolver to extend ResourceLoader, for ResourcePatternResolver checks in ResourceLoaderAware
    • made BindException serializable, provided that the contained target object is serializable
    • added LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy, for lazily fetching JDBC Connections with native JDBC or Hibernate transactions
    • added "Sybase-jConnect" to default sql-error-codes.xml file, for database product name "Adaptive Server Enterprise"
    • added overloaded "queryForList"/"queryForObject"/"queryForLong"/"queryForInt" methods with arg types to JdbcTemplate
    • added "alwaysUseNewSession" flag to HibernateTemplate, enforcing a new Session even in case of a pre-bound Session
    • HibernateTemplate proxies exposed Sessions by default, applying query cache settings and transaction timeouts
    • added "isConnectFailure(RemoteException)" hook to AbstractRemoteSlsbInvokerInterceptor, for customized failure checks
    • added "isConnectFailure(RemoteException)" hook to (Jndi)RmiClientInterceptor, for customized connect failure checks
    • added JaxRpcServicePostProcessor interface, intended for reusable custom type mappings etc for a JAX-RPC service
    • added "servicePostProcessors" property to LocalJaxRpcServiceFactory and subclasses (incl. JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean)
    • added "messageIdEnabled" and "messageTimestampEnabled" properties to JmsTemplate, to disable id/timestamp on producer
    • added "pubSubNoLocal" property to JmsTemplate, leading to the NoLocal flag being specified on MessageConsumer creation
    • added "receiveSelected" and "receivedSelectedAndConvert" methods to JmsTemplate, accepting JMS message selectors
    • added "schedulerListeners", "(global)JobListeners", "(global)TriggerListeners" bean properties to SchedulerFactoryBean
    • added "jobListenerNames"/"triggerListenerNames" property to JobDetailBean, CronTriggerBean, SimpleTriggerBean (resp.)
    • added ServletContextAttributeFactoryBean, exposing an existing ServletContext attribute for bean references
    • added ServletContextAttributeExporter, taking Spring-defined objects and exposing them as ServletContext attributes
    • added ServletContextPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, a subclass that falls back to web.xml context-param entries
    • added "publishEvents" init-param to FrameworkServlet, allowing to turn off the publishing of RequestHandledEvents
    • Spring JSP tags work outside DispatcherServlet too, falling back to root WebApplicationContext and JSTL/request locale

    Please see the changelog for details.
    Downloads are available through the SourceForge project page

    Spring Framework 1.1.3 Released

    Releases | Thomas Risberg | December 12, 2004 | ...

    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:

            <ul>
              <li>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
  • Spring Framework 1.1.2 Released

    Releases | Thomas Risberg | November 14, 2004 | ...

    We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.2 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release.
     

    Among the new features in this release are

            <ul>
              <li>added
    

    support for multi-dimensional collections to BeanWrapperImpl (e.g. "map[myKey][0]" or "map[myKey][0].name")

  • added "getType(name)" method to BeanFactory interface, checking the type of object that "getBean" would return
  • added "getBeansOfType(type)" convenience method to ListableBeanFactory interface, without explicit filters
  • added PropertyPathFactoryBean, allowing to evaluate the property path of a target bean and expose the result
  • allow "bean*" rather than "bean+" in XML bean definitions, i.e. no bean definitions in a file (just imports)

    Spring Framework 1.1.1 Released

    Releases | Thomas Risberg | September 30, 2004 | ...

    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:

            <ul>
              <li>&quot;import&quot;
    

    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
  • Spring Framework 1.1 Final Released

    Releases | Thomas Risberg | September 05, 2004 | ...

    We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1 (final) has just been released. Since 1.1 RC2, some API clarifications have happened and a number of bugs have been fixed.

    There is also a variety of minor new features:

    • reworked BeanWrapperImpl's property-specific custom editor handling to allow registration for uninitialized subpaths
    • added "applyBeanPropertyValues" method to AutowireCapableBeanFactory, for populating an existing bean instance

    • added "(abstract)" marker for properties bean definitions respectively "abstract" attribute for XML bean definitions

    • added support for SqlReturnType interface which allows to return custom types from stored procedures
    • added auto-conversion of java.util.Date…

    Spring Framework 1.1 Release Candidate 2 Released

    Releases | Thomas Risberg | August 19, 2004 | ...

    We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1 Release Candidate 2 is available. This will be the last release candidate for 1.1; release 1.1 final can be expected very soon.



    Among the new features in this release are:

    • the new HTTP invoker remoting strategy, which uses Java serialization over HTTP (combining the strengths of RMI and Hessian)
    • RemoteInvocationFactory and RemoteInvocationExecutor strategies for HTTP/RMI invoker, for additional invocation context
    • basic JSF support in the form of a JSF VariableResolver implementation that is aware of Spring-managed middle tier beans
    • form simplification macros for Velocity and FreeMarker, providing HTML input macros etc for easy form building

    Method Injection

    Engineering | Rod Johnson | August 06, 2004 | ...

    A couple of months ago, in the days before I had a blog, there was a discussion by Cedric and Bob about "Getter Injection."

    The basic concept is that the IoC container can override abstract or concrete methods on managed objects on deployment. The container is injecting a method, such as a getter method, rather than a reference or primitive as in Setter Injection. As it happened, I was already working on a container method override mechanism for Spring 1.1, which has since been released in Spring 1.1 RC1. It's an interesting concept, and definitely part of a complete IoC container. However, I…

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