Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring Framework 1.0 final released

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Congratulations!

Thanks all!

I have posted the good news on Chinese Spring Framework forum.

Regards,

Zheng Ye
	

>***** Look outside, Spring is here! *****
>(for the northern hemisphere, at least ;-)
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>Dear Spring community,
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>I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.0 final has just been released. Thanks to all contributors and early adopters that have followed our 1.0 milestones and release candidates: Spring wouldn't be as mature as it is without you!
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>1. SCOPE
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>Spring 1.0 is a complete Java/J2EE application framework, covering the following functionality:
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>* 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 resource loading and message access abstractions
>* generic transaction management with pluggable strategies, supporting declarative and programmatic demarcation
>* support for source-level metadata, with Commons Attributes as default implementation (e.g. for transaction attributes)
>* generic DAO support, providing a generic data access exception hierarchy for use with any data access strategy
>* JDBC abstraction that simplifies resource and error handling, also covering BLOB/CLOB support
>* Hibernate support, providing SessionFactory management and transaction-scoped ThreadLocal Sessions
>* support classes for JDO 1.0 and iBATIS SQL Maps 1.3/2.0, integrated with Spring's transaction management
>* mail sender abstraction, with special support for JavaMail including convenient handling of file attachments
>* scheduling support for Quartz and Timer, making it easy to invoke methods of Spring-managed beans
>* remoting support for RMI, JAX-RPC and Caucho's Hessian/Burlap, for easy exposure of Spring-managed beans
>* convenience classes for accessing and implementing EJBs, both local and remote
>* web application context, for loading a Spring application context in a web environment
>* flexible web MVC framework, built on strategy interfaces and integrated with various view technologies
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>A unique benefit of Spring is the ability to apply declarative transactions to any POJO, with JTA or a local transaction strategy: This allows to have lightweight transactional business objects in any sort of environment, for example in a web app running on plain Tomcat. Spring's transaction management is also capable of managing associated resources like Hibernate Sessions, avoiding the burden of custom ThreadLocal Sessions.
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>Building on the resource management infrastructure, Spring's HibernateTemplate significantly simplifies the implementation of Hibernate-based DAOs, reducing typical data access operations to single statements. A similar level of convenience is available for JDBC in the form of Spring's JdbcTemplate, and for iBATIS SQL Maps 1.3/2.0 in the form of SqlMapTemplate respectively SqlMapClientTemplate.
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>An important characteristic of Spring is that many of its features can be used individually, without the need to adopt an architecture that's completely based on Spring. Furthermore, a Spring-managed middle tier and all the functionality it provides can be reused in any sort of environment, be it a J2EE web application with a Spring web MVC, Struts, WebWork or Tapestry web tier, or a standalone application with a Swing user interface.
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>2. SAMPLES AND USAGES
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>The Spring distribution comes with numerous sample applications. The "-with-dependencies" download includes all third-party libraries that are necessary for building an running them.
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>* our JPetStore, adapting the iBATIS JPetStore with a Spring-managed middle tier and alternative Spring/Struts web tiers
>* Petclinic, a simple database-driven web application that offers alternative Hibernate/JDBC data access strategies
>* Countries, a web app that illustrates locale and theme handling, and the generation of PDF and Excel web views
>* Image Database, a one-screen web app that illustrates BLOB/CLOB handling and Velocity/FreeMarker web views
>* Tiles Example, demonstrating the use of Tiles with Spring's web MVC framework
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>Spring is already used in a significant number of production applications, including mission-critical applications. Current adopters include a number of large banks and health care organizations in Europe and the US. Noteworthy usages of Spring in publically visible applications are:
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>* Matt Raible's AppFuse (http://raibledesigns.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=AppFuse) application skeleton, adopting Spring as middle tier framework with a Struts web tier
>* Atlassian's new product Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence), built on a Spring middle tier and a WebWork2 web tier
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>3. UPGRADING
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>Users upgrading from a Spring 1.0 milestone or release candidate, please see the changelog; there have been quite a few refinements in the details. Among the changes since 1.0 RC2 are:
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>* AOP support upgraded to AOP Alliance 1.0
>* more sophisticated handling of indexed and mapped properties in BeanWrapperImpl
>* new ResourceLoader interface, extended by the ApplicationContext interface
>* ReloadableResourceBundleMessage supports configurable character encodings
>* MimeMessageHelper supports configurable character encodings
>* JdbcTemplate has new generic "execute" methods and refined "query" methods
>* iBATIS SQL Maps 2.0 support upgraded to SQL Maps 2.0 RC1
>* added support for FreeMarker 2.3
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>Please note the following upgrade issues with respect to the AOP support:
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>* you have to update your aopalliance.jar
>* AdvisorAutoProxyCreator was renamed to DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator
>* TransactionAttributeSourceTransactionAroundAdvisor was renamed to TransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor
>* custom Advisor implementations: getAdvice() now returns org.aopalliance.aop.Advice rather than Object
>* if you implemented org.springframework.aop.MethodAfterReturningAdvice, replace with AfterReturningAdvice (no change in method signature)
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>Regards,
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>Juergen