[Springframework-developer] Spring Framework 1.1 RC2 released

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Dear Spring community,
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I'm 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.
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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
* DispatcherServlet looks for handler adapters, handler mappings, =
exception res., view res. in ancestor contexts as well
* HibernateTransactionManager and HibernateInterceptor support =
per-transaction entity interceptor instances
* WebLogicJtaTransactionManager which can resume a WebLogic JTA =
transaction even if it was marked rollback-only
* MimeMessageHelper provides "addInline" methods for adding inline =
elements with content IDs (referenced via "cid:xxx")
* Errors interface provides "pushNestedPath"/"popNestedPath" methods, =
for convenient handling of temporary nested paths
* Spring's Resource objects support a "createRelative" operation, for =
resource paths relative to the given one
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Important changes and bugfixes include:
* a constructor argument value without index will now just be considered =
once, rather than matched multiple times
* introduced BeanDefinitionReader interface and reworked =
XmlBeanDefinitionParser SPI (warning: not backwards-compatible)
* fixed TransactionAspectSupport's after-returning behavior to always =
call commit even if transaction is not new
* SchedulerFactoryBean reschedules triggers in case of =
"overwriteExistingJobs", to update triggers of persistent jobs
* fixed JmsTemplate102's "doSend" implementation to properly work with a =
JMS 1.0.2 API jar in the classpath

As always, see the changelog for details.
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I'd like to encourage everybody to give 1.1 RC2 a try: The reason why it =
has not been marked 1.1 final yet is simply the further addition of new =
features which have not been fully reviewed.
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Regards,
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Juergen
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