Spring JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 Released

[Chris Beams]

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 is now available.

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Major Highlights

• @AnnotationDrivenTx - support for declarative transaction management
• @AnnotationDrivenConfig - support for @Autowired, @Resource, et al.
• @ComponentScan - scan for @Component classes directly from JavaConfig
• @AspectJAutoProxy - first-class support for @Aspect beans
• @MBeanExport - first class support for exporting JMX MBeans
• Complete PetClinic sample now available with distribution demonstrating use of JavaConfig
• Improved support for externalized values with @ExternalValue and @PropertiesValueSource
• @ImportXml - bootstrap Spring XML bean definitions from JavaConfig
• Improved error handling
• ... and dozens of other resolved issues

Please give this milestone a test drive, and provide your feedback through the Spring JavaConfig Forum or Issue Tracker. For more information, visit the Spring JavaConfig Home.

[davidkarlsen]

I can't find any final release of java config? Did it silently die?

[Chris Beams]

Hi David,

Just the contrary!

The core elements of JavaConfig have been migrated to Spring Core for the 3.0 release. You can find @Configuration, @Bean, and others in the recently release Spring 3.0 M3. Take a look here to get a sense of it. http://is.gd/JEXz

We'd love your feedback, please take a look and let us know what you think.

As for the JavaConfig project itself, it is right now uncertain whether we'll continue a separate project or eventually migrate everything into core. This will be based on user feedback with the 3.0 features.

[davidkarlsen]

Hi David,

Just the contrary!

The core elements of JavaConfig have been migrated to Spring Core for the 3.0 release. You can find @Configuration, @Bean, and others in the recently release Spring 3.0 M3. Take a look here to get a sense of it. http://is.gd/JEXz

We'd love your feedback, please take a look and let us know what you think.

As for the JavaConfig project itself, it is right now uncertain whether we'll continue a separate project or eventually migrate everything into core. This will be based on user feedback with the 3.0 features.

That's great to hear - but I'll need something that works with 2.5.x for the moment - as upgrading to 3.0 will be in the future - and we'll probably wait for the first maintaince release as well.