[Springframework-developer] Spring Framework 2.1 M1 released

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

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 2.1 M1 has been released!

This is the first milestone release in the Spring 2.1 series, introducing
various new major features: explicit JDK 1.6 and Java EE 5 support,
JCA-based message endpoint management, annotation-based configuration, and
new "context" and "jms" XML configuration namespaces.

Expect us to blog about the new features in the coming days, in particular
about the new annotation-based configuration options :-)

Note that as of Spring 2.1 M1, Spring is built on JDK 1.6 and requires JDK
1.4 or higher at runtime. The required J2EE level remains at 1.3.

A second milestone release is planned for end of May, completing the feature
set for Spring 2.1, before moving on to the first 2.1 release candidate.

Cheers,

Juergen
 
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Juergen Hoeller
Interface21
http://www.interface21.com