[Springframework-developer] Spring Framework 1.2 final released

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

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 1.2 final has just been released. The
major new features since 1.2 RC2 are:

* TopLink support (for both TopLink 9.0.4 and 10.1.3)
* JDO 2.0 support (tested against JPOX 1.1 beta 3)
* Hibernate 3.0.3 support (aggressive release of Connections)

The overall major new features of Spring 1.2 are:

* finer-grained distribution jar files
* simplified XML bean definitions
* JMX support
* JDK 1.5 transaction annotation
* support for WebLogic JTA extensions
* JDBC RowSet support
* JCA CCI support
* JDO2 support
* Hibernate3 support
* TopLink support

Thanks to Oracle for donating the original TopLink support prototype, and in
particular to Jim Clark from Oracle - for all his help in getting the
TopLink support into its final shape!

For details on new features, deprecations and bug fixes, please see the
change log.

FYI, we have a 1.2.1 release scheduled for June, featuring minor
enhancements that did not make 1.2 final. See our JIRA road map for details.

Cheers,

Juergen

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Juergen Hoeller
Interface21 - Spring Services from the Source
http://www.springframework.com