Spring Framework 1.2RC1 released

[Colin Sampaleanu]

-- as originally posted by Juergen on the mailing lists:

Dear Spring community,

It's Spring time :-)

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 1.2 RC1 has just been released. This
release introduces a number of major new features:

• finer-grained distribution jar files, alongside the full spring.jar
• AOP Alliance interfaces are now contained in spring-aop.jar and spring.jar
  
• XML bean definition improvements ("ref" and "value" shortcut attributes
  etc)
• improved AOP TargetSourceCreator mechanism (supporting
  LazyInitTargetSource too)
  
• transaction annotation support for JDK 1.5+ (annotation called
  "Transactional")
• improved WebLogicJtaTransactionManager (transaction names, isolation
  levels)
  
• SqlRowSet support for JDBC (in conjunction with JdbcTemplate's
  "queryForRowSet")
• Hibernate3 support (in orm.hibernate3; Hibernate 2.1 support is still
  available)
  
• JMX support for export of Spring beans as managed resources and for MBean
  access
• Commons Attributes and JDK 1.5+ annotations for JMX MBean export
  
  This release also contains many minor enhancements, for example:
  
• factored out BindingErrorProcessor strategy for ServletRequestDataBinder
• improved ParameterMethodNameResolver for Web MVC MultiActionController

For a detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes, see the changelog.

This release candidate is already considered stable and recommended for
development use. We expect Spring 1.2 final to be released in late April.

Watch out for the Spring Web Flow preview release to follow later this week
(for use with Spring 1.2)! Web Flow will also become part of the nightly
build at that time.

Cheers,

Juergen

[jazzle]

Hi,
would it be possible for the tutorial demo to be updated?
http://www.springframework.org/webapps/springapp
all the prices have become infinity and hence the demo is rather limited.

perhaps the tutorial should be edited to allow price edit in both directions.

also, if it could be explained how to do relative paths in Windows within the .properties files.

thanks, j