Spring 1.1 / Spring-IDE 1.0.2 Compatibility

Will I run into any compatibility issues or limitations in running the Spring-IDE 1.0.2 against a spring-beans.xml file for a Spring 1.1 application?

No problems here.

Can you elaborate a bit? How extensively are you "pushing the envelope" with using Spring 1.1 features? Have there been any changes to the spring-beans.dtd for Spring 1.1? I can't tell because the DTD does not require a version attribute.

Sure. I'm using Spring for all my service-level declarative transaction support and it's handling my Hibernate session factory, session, configuration, etc. I'm also using Acegi to wrap all my services, so I have a chain of 4 beans for every service call. I was using 1.0.x and dropped 1.1 in without any changes to my configurations, nor to Spring-IDE, which I'm using to validate applicationConfiguration.xml. Note that I'm not using Spring's MVC support in case that matters.

I found a problem that I'm not sure as to whether the problem is a bug with the Spring-IDE or a 1.0/1.1 incompatibility problem.

I declare an AbstractService node as an interceptor with the intent of deriving concrete nodes from it. I can't remember exactly how it went but it was along the lines of the following:

Code:

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<beans>

  <bean id="dataSource" classname="...JndiFactory">
    ...
  </bean>

  <bean id="transactionManager" ...>
  </bean>

  <bean id="abstractService" abstract="true" classname="...Proxy">
    <property name="transactionManager">
      <bean refid="transactionManager"/>
    </property>
    <property name="methods">
      <properties>
        <prop name="load*">etc...</prop>
        ...regex for methods to be intercepted defined here...
      </properties>
    </property/>
  </bean>

  <bean id="productService" parent="abstractService">
    <property name="target">
      <bean classname="...ProductServiceImpl">
        <property name="dataSource">
          <bean refid="dataSource"/>
        </property>
      </bean>
    </property>
  </bean>

</beans>

---

By no means correct, but you get the idea.

Anyway, the Spring-IDE was giving a marker that "abstract must be declared" for the abstractService node. Well, as you can see, it had been declared, so it was a false error.

Re-arranging the declaration to eliminate the abstract node was the only way that I could get the marker to go away.

Spring IDE 1.0.3 ships with an older spring-beans.dtd which doesn't know about the abstract attribute. The gory details can be found in this entry http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=10957

Cheers,
Torsten