Any plans to provide the annotations support?

[igor]

I'm new to spring and I'm planning on using it with hibernate 3 in my next project. It would be nice to be able to use the annotations for spring with jdk 1.5 instead of editing the application context xml by hand. Any plans on implementing this in the feature? Any alternatives? I tried XDoclet but it doesn't support 1.5 syntax yet.

[katentim]

'Pro Spring' says J2SE 5.0 annotation support is likely to be released in 1.2.

[robh]

Igor,

JDK 5.0 annotations are in CVS now and should be released with Spring 1.2.

Rob

[igor]

Rob:

Thanks, this is great! I'll get the latest 1.2 dev build to check it out. Any hints as to where the documentation for this new functionality might be (if any)?

Igor

[Colin Sampaleanu]

First of all, the Hibernate 3 annotation support has nothing to do with Spring's annotation support. So if you want to use the former it doesn't depend on Spring supporting any sort of annotations.

Now if you are interested in Spring's Annotations, the current CVS codebase, to be released as 1.2RC1 in a day or two, provides Annotations for transaction demarcation, and for exposing beans via JMX. The only real documentation currently is JavaDocs, and the unit tests which test the functionality. More docs (in the manual) will come by 1.2 final. However, note that using the transaction annotations is actually very similar in approach to how the existing commons-attributes based transaction annotations/attributes works. Reading that part of the manual should help you get going with the JDK 1.5 Annotations stuff a bit more easily, for transactions.