I've updated the web site artifacts _except_ the release announcement
itself, which Keith will handle...
On 6/20/2006 2:57 PM, Juergen Hoeller wrote:
>Dear Spring community,
>
>I'm pleased to announce that Spring 2.0 RC1 has been released. This is the
>first release candidate for Spring 2.0, after a series of five milestone
>releases. It is waiting for broad user feedback on its way towards 2.0
>final.
>
>The general topics for Spring 2.0 are simplified configuration and AOP
>unification, along with support for JPA, asynchronous JMS, and Portlet
>environments. Among the new features are:
>
>* Bean definitions based on XML schema, with out-of-the-box namespaces for
>common configuration tasks
>* Support for extended bean scopes in application contexts, with web request
>and session scopes as main targets
>* Bean definition enhancements: lazy loading of bean classes, collection
>merging, intelligent error messages
>
>* Simplified AOP configuration based on XML schema namespaces
>* Support for AspectJ pointcut expression language and AspectJ-style aspects
>* Support for dependency injection on any object (based on AspectJ)
>
>* Enhanced JDBC support: named SQL parameters, generics-based
>SimpleJdbcTemplate
>* Explicit support for Hibernate 3.1 and 3.2 (while remaining compatible
>with Hibernate 3.0)
>* Support for the Java Persistence API (JPA), including the full container
>contract (with class instrumentation)
>
>* TaskExecutor abstraction for submitting asynchronous work
>* Support for various thread pools, such as a Java 5 ThreadPoolExecutor and
>a CommonJ WorkManager
>* Support for asynchronous JMS ("Message-Driven POJOs"), based on message
>listener containers
>
>* Conventions-based web MVC: controller mappings, model attribute names
>* JSP form tag library for use with Spring Web MVC and Spring Web Flow
>* Full support for Portlet environments, including Portlet-style MVC based
>on a DispatcherPortlet
>
>And many, many refinements in the details...
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Juergen
>
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