Re: [Springframework-developer] Changes for 0.9.1

[<rod...@in...>]

Here's a list of the changes I've made between 0.9 and 0.9.1. 
I hope I've remembered everything. I think it would be good 
if we all add to this to form a release note.

Juergen, could you summarize the significant changes you've 
made (I know you've posted many of them to the list, so 
compiling those into a single doc would be a good start).

I've distinguished between backward-compatible changes and 
changes that will break user code (marked with *).


CHANGES

* indicates not backward compatible

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* Updated to current AOP Alliance interfaces. 
org.aopalliance -> org.aopalliance.intercept. 
MethodInvocation.invokeNext() -> proceed(). 

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- Created distinction between static and dynamic method 
pointcuts. Static pointcuts depend only on invoked method, 
and possibly attributes; dynamic pointcuts are also aware of 
arguments. This will permit performance optimizations in AOP 
framework if required in the future.

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- Added regular expression method pointcut. This matches 
method FQNs, such as .*get.*, which will match
com.mycom.Foo.getValue()
org.somewhere.Someclass.getSomething()

OR

com.mycom.*get*, which will match only the first example. 
(OK, I'm being lazy, the . is a wildchar not a literal ., but 
it looks good.) Syntax is Perl 5 regular expressions. If you 
want to use this, remember to include Jakarta ORO in your 
classpath.

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* com.interface21.ejb.support package once again provides a 
BeanFactory to subclasses. It differs from the original 
version in that the default BeanFactory is now an XML bean 
factory, loaded from the classpath with the environment 
variable ejb/BeanFactoryPath specifying the location.

You'll need an environment variable like this in ejb-jar.xml:

 <env-entry>
	<description>
		Path to the bean factory. Note that this is 
on the classpath
		and the XML file should be included in the 
EJB Jar file.
	</description>
	<env-entry-name>ejb/BeanFactoryPath</env-entry-name>
	<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
	<env-entry-
value>/com/mycompany/myapplication/myName.xml</env-entry-
value>
</env-entry>

You'll also need to implement a protected abstract onEjbCreate
() method, rather than implement ejbCreate(). This is 
consistent across SLSBs and MDBs.

Stateful session beans should extend the new 
AbstractStatefulSessionBean class. AbstractEnterpriseBean and 
AbstractSessionBean are now package-visible, as they 
shouldn't be subclassed directly.

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- Spring bean factory DTD has been extended to allow map 
entries to be lists, as well as values or references

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- Added an optional "init-method" attribute to XML bean 
definitions. This specifies the name of a no-arg method that 
should be invoked after all property values have been set. 
This method provides an alternative to implementing the 
InitializingBean, so that application classes aren't forced 
into dependency on Spring APIs. The init method may throw any 
exception: if it does the framework will catch it, treat it 
as fatal, and log it.

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- Fixed bug where NoSuchMethodError could be thrown if a 
Spring XML beans definition file was invalid.

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- Improved support for bean factory inheritance. Added 
methods in BeanFactoryUtils to look at _all_ beans (or beans 
of a particular type) including ancestor definitions, rather 
than just definitions in the leaf factory. Updated framework 
classes such as ProxyFactoryBean to pick up beans of the 
relevant type from ancestor factories.

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- Added getUnderlyingResultSet() method to ReadOnlyResultSet. 
Allows use of proprietary methods on ResultSets if necessary, 
while preserving the default prohibition of navigation 
methods.

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- Further improvement to test suite. Unit test coverage now 
74%.