[Springframework-developer] Spring Framework 1.0 M3 released

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Hello everybody,
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I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Framework 1.0 M3. This is =
the fifth public release towards 1.0 final.  As you can see in the =
changelog, there have been lots of changes in this iteration. The next =
release will be 1.0 RC1; we do not plan any further milestone releases.
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M3 introduces significant new features and enhancements, among them:
- Type 3 IoC support in the bean factory (constructor resolution)
- bean factory SPI interfaces (package bean.factory.config)
- redesigned AOP API (more flexible pointcut handling etc)
- reworked and optimized transaction manager implementations
- fine-grained JDBC exception handling in the Hibernate support
- reworked JDO support with a new JdoDialect strategy
- reworked exception handling in the web framework
- working Tiles example application included
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Some of the changes will need migration of existing code, most notably:
- Controllers are now allowed to throw Exception (affecting =
BaseCommandController and AbstractFormController)
- some of BeanCommandController's methods have been renamed
- ServletRequestDataBinder contains a BindException now instead of =
deriving from it

Typical application code should not be affected as we have kept =
deprecated methods. We recommend to migrate promptly though, as we =
intend to drop the deprecated methods before 1.0 final. See =
changes-M2-M3.txt for details.
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Regards,
Juergen
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