[Springnet-developer] Spring.NET 1.3.0 RC1 Released

[Mark P. <Mar...@sp...>]

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.3.0 is now available.

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This release contains the following new major features:

*        Micosoft Test Framework integration<http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.3.0-RC1/reference/html/testing.html#integration-testing> - Integration test classes to support MSTest in addition to NUnit.

*        TIBCO EMS integration<http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.3.0-RC1/reference/html/messaging.html> - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging based applications with TIBCO EMS.

*        NVelocity integration<http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.3.0-RC1/reference/html/templating.html> - Helper classes to configure a NVelocity template engine in a Spring based application

*        VS.NET Solution Templates<http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.3.0-RC1/reference/html/vsnet.html#d4e9487> - VS.NET 2008 based solution templates to get you up and running quickly creating Spring based applications.

*        DI support for Enterprise Service Components

Other notable new features:

*        NHibernate 2.1 and ActiveMQ NMS 1.1 support.

*        Updated and documented NHibernate 2.1 QuickStart application.<http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.3.0-RC1/reference/html/nh-quickstart.html>

*        Spring based NHibernate ByteCode provider<http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.3.0-RC1/reference/html/orm.html#orm-hibernate-bytecodeprovider> to support DI for NH entities.

This release includes approximately 100  bug fixes and enhancements since the 1.2.0 release.

Please refer to the changelog<http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.3.0-RC1/changelog.txt> for additional details.


Enjoy!