Happy New Year

[Marten Deinum]

The new year is already 2 days old but still Happy New Year to all. A new year with new opportunities and hopefully lots of new Spring goodies .

[karldmoore]

Its always a bind having to get up for work first day back, but Happy New Year to all. Personally, I'm hoping this ones lots better than the last one!

[debasishg]

With the new year already set in, what is the most sought after new feature that the community would like to have as part of Spring ?

Cheers and Happy New Year !
- Debasish

[Rod Johnson]

Happy New Year!

[karldmoore]

Peter raised a question regarding what could be an interesting addition.
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=32849

Personally, I'd like to get more into Acegi (once my contract is sorted). Its an excellent framework, but at the minute there are lots of gotchas, complicated bits of configuration and slightly un-Spring like behaviour. It would be nice to "clean" it up a bit, hopefully I might be able to try and help with that (fingers crossed).

[debasishg]

Personally I would like to see a lot more typesafety in the JDBC space. SQL queries buried within hard coded strings have been sources of problems in many applications. No refactoring support, no compile time checks ..

I would like to see a typesafe Criteria abstraction, typesafe enums modeling columns and use of generics to enforce some of the typesafety through a generic DAO layer. Sometime back I had blogged about it here, here and here. I have developed this using Spring as the underlying implementation.

Cheers.
- Debasish

[karldmoore]

Are you basically talking about a Hibernate style query-by-criteria for plain old JDBC?

[debasishg]

Are you basically talking about a Hibernate style query-by-criteria for plain old JDBC?

Actually there are many Java applications which do not need using ORM and would not like to add heavy duty Hibernate in their application stack. A lightweight DAO layer would be ideal. Spring has most of it through the template classes - I was thinking if we can add some typesafety to this space.

Cheers.
- Debasish

[karldmoore]

Actually there are many Java applications which do not need using ORM and would not like to add heavy duty Hibernate in their application stack. A lightweight DAO layer would be ideal. Spring has most of it through the template classes - I was thinking if we can add some typesafety to this space.

I appreciate that, you previsouly mentioned criteria abstraction I thought thats what you were getting at. A query-by-criteria style API for JDBC.

There is obviously some 1.5 only code which does make things better. Obviously you can always go further with these things. Have you raised any of the features your after in JIRA (or checked if they're already in there).

http://blog.interface21.com/main/200...20-and-java-5/
http://www.springframework.org/docs/...leJdbcTemplate

[debasishg]

There is obviously some 1.5 only code which does make things better. Obviously you can always go further with these things. Have you raised any of the features your after in JIRA (or checked if they're already in there).

Last time I checked Spring JIRA, I could not find anything. I will check again and raise an issue with my thoughts.

Thanks.
- Debasish