[Springframework-developer] Spring Framework 2.0 RC3 released

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

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 2.0 RC3 has been released. This third
release candidate includes many refinements based on feedback that we
received for the previous release candidates. (Thanks everybody!)

The most significant changes are:

* Spring 1.2 compatibility has been restored for default-lazy-init="true",
with respect to detection of special beans (such as
PropertyPlaceholderConfigurers) by type. Alongside, lazy class loading has
been reworked to still allow for placeholders in class names etc. Strict
lazy class loading can still be enforced for special ApplicationContexts.

* Persistence exception translation based on the @Repository annotation is
now available for Hibernate3, JDO and TopLink as well, not just for JPA.
Exception translation is now based on the underlying ORM tool's native
exceptions as far as possible, with Spring-specific SQLException translation
only applying when explicitly specified.

* DefaultMessageListenerContainer features refined resource handling (which
works on JBoss 4.0 as well), and is able to recover from a broken Connection
or Destination. The caching of JMS resources is now fully configurable, with
sensible defaults for both the XA and the non-XA scenario. Furthermore,
JmsTemplate reuses cached JMS resources within a JTA transaction.

* Servlet and Portlet Web MVC support a common WebRequestInterceptor
abstraction now, which allows Open Session/EntityManager/etc in View
interceptors to be reused across Servlet and Portlet environments. As a
consequence, all such Portlet-specific interceptors have been dropped in
favor of the new generic ones (OpenSessionInViewInterceptor etc).

Of course, there are many further refiements in the details. Please see the
changelog file (as well as the changelog in JIRA) for details.

Let us know about any remaining issues you might encounter with RC3... 
The Spring 2.0 final release is now just around the corner!

Cheers,

Juergen