[Springframework-developer] XML bean definition improvements

[Juergen H. <ju...@in...>]

Hi everybody,

I've just finished the last planned features for 1.2 RC1, namely a couple of
XML bean definition improvements:

* shortcut attributes for "ref" and "value" on "property" and
"constructor-arg"
* maps can be defined with non-String keys (through a <key> subelement)
* String values can be typed, for example collection elements (<value
type="...">)

See the following issues for details:

http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-379
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-392
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-542

This should allow us to proceed with the actual 1.2 RC1 release now... I
expect the release to happen tomorrow (finally!).

Juergen