[Springframework-developer] Re: Spring Framework 1.2 RC1 released

[Matt S. <sga...@us...>]

I've been using 1.2 RC1 since its release and it's working great for me! 
  I especially appreciate the updates to JdbcTemplate and spring-beans.dtd.

Matt

Juergen Hoeller wrote:
> Dear Spring community,
> 
> It's Spring time :-)
> 
> I'm 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Juergen
> 
> -----
> Juergen Hoeller
> Interface21 - Spring Services from the Source
> http://www.springframework.com
> 
> 
> 
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