We're pleased to announce that Spring 1.2 RC2 has just been released.

• support for JCA's Common Client Interface (CCI), including support for CCI local transactions

• deprecated ListableBeanFactory's getBeanDefinitionNames(type)", in favor of "getBeanNamesForType"
  
• added "value"/"value-ref" shortcut attributes to XML "entry" tag for maps
  
• added "alias" root element for XML bean definition files, for aliases for beans in other files
  
  
• JdbcAccessor lazily initializes the SQLExceptionTranslator by default now
  
• added further configuration options to LocalSessionFactoryBean for Hibernate3
  
• added "defaultDestinationName" property to JmsTemplate, for a dynamic default destination
  
  
• refined Resource support for compatibility with JDK 1.3's classic VM and with JRockit's jar paths
  
• refactored static PathMatcher class into PathMatcher interface and AntPathMatcher implementation
  
• added ConfigurableMimeFileTypeMap, with extensive MIME type mappings out-of-the-box
  
  
• added "context.i18n" package, with LocaleContext abstraction and global LocaleContextHolder
  
• DispatcherServlet exposes the current LocaleResolver through the global LocaleContextHolder
  
• added RemoteInvocationTraceInterceptor, logging remote calls and exceptions on the server
  
  
• updated JasperReports support for JR 0.6.6, using JRDefaultCompiler as default report compiler
  
• reworked AbstractJasperReportsView to work on JasperPrint instance rather than JasperReport instance
  
• added support for reports with embedded SQL statements to AbstractJasperReportsView

We are pleased to announce the 2nd preview release of Spring Web Flow for use with the Spring 1.2 release path.  This stable-for-development-use release offers the following major new features:

• Pluggable flow execution storage strategies, with out-of-the-box continuations support.  This means:
  • You now have the option to persist an executing flow’s state to any backing data store, including the HttpSession (the default), a database, serialized files, etc.
  • You can select to use a continuations based storage strategy, turning Spring Web Flow into a continuation-driven system providing proper browser navigational button behavior (back, next, refresh, and new window.) You can also choose between client-side or server-side continuation storage.  GZIP compression of flow execution state is also supported.
• Support for OGNL transition criteria, with a TransitionCriteriaCreator strategy for easily integrating other expression languages or custom transition expressions as needed.
• Portlet support, with the samples (Phonebook) illustrating Spring Web Flow in a portlet environment.
• Support for a ‘validatorMethod’ action state property, specifying a validation method to invoke, for use with a FormAction with a configured Validator instance (to support easy piecemeal validation within a wizard)
• Support for JDK 1.3.
• Samples (Phonebook) illustrating how to write integration tests to verify the expected behavior of your flows.
• Samples (Birthdate) illustrating Struts integration.
• A brand new sample app (Sell Item), illustrating a validating wizard using continuations (providing proper browser navigational button use!) and conditional transitions (using OGNL expressions!).

There are also a number of bug fixes and other general improvements/polishing included in this release.  Note, for PR1 users: there are a few incompatible changes in PR2 with PR1.  Please see the Change Log on the WIKI for details.

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As always, with the Spring seal of quality you’ve come to expect, we offer:

• Quality documentation, both in the javadocs and WIKI docs
  
• Strong test coverage
  
• Careful attention to naming, packaging, and ease of use
  
• Exceptional error reporting
• A feature set driven by end user needs

To download the preview release:

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1. Access the springframework project file list.
   

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2. Scroll down to the 'spring-webflow' release package and select

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We are pleased to announce a preview release of Spring Web Flow for use with the Spring 1.2 release path.  With this release, we consider the web flow system fit for development use.

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Contained in this release are new features we expect to take web applications with demanding page flow requirements to the next level.  These include:

• The ability to capture the logical page flows of your application as self-contained modules reusable in multiple situations.
• The ability to nest flows 'n' levels deep (as subflows), where each flow is a "black-box" adhering to a well-defined contract for input/output.
• The ability to express page flows declaratively, with a pluggable flow definition format (currently Java-based and XML-based builder formats are provided.)
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We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.5 has just been released.

• added overloaded "reject" and rejectValue" methods without default message to Errors interface and BindException
  
• added "lookup(name, requiredType)" convenience method to JndiTemplate, matching the JNDI object against the given type
  
• added "homeInterface" property to AbstractRemoteSlsbInvokerInterceptor, for specifying the home interface to narrow to
  
• introduced MailMessage interface as common interface for SimpleMailMessage and JavaMail MIME messages
  
• Log4jConfigurer accepts a "classpath:" URL or a "file:" URL as location too, not just a plain file path
  
• Log4jConfigurer accepts config files that do not reside in the file system, as long as there is no refresh interval
  
  
• added "int[] batchUpdate(String[] sql)" method to JdbcTemplate, for executing a group of SQL statements as a batch
  
• added C3P0NativeJdbcExtractor for C3P0 0.8.5 or later (for earlier C3P0 versions, use SimpleNativeJdbcExtractor)
  
• added "maxRows" bean property to JdbcTemplate, allowing to specify the maximum number of rows to be fetched
  
• added "fetchSize" and "maxRows" bean properties to RdbmsOperation, passing the values to the internal JdbcTemplate
  
• added ClobStringTypeHandler, BlobByteArrayTypeHandler and BlobSerializableTypeHandler for iBATIS SQL Maps 2.0.9
  
• ResourceHolderSupport throws TransactionTimedOutException if no time-to-live left (before attempting an operation)
  
• TransactionSynchronization objects can influence their execution order through implementing the Ordered interface
  
• JtaTransactionManager is able to work with a JTA TransactionManager only (i.e. without a UserTransaction handle)
  
  
• upgraded MockHttpServletRequest to Servlet API 2.4 (added getRemotePort, getLocalName, getLocalAddr, getLocalPort)
  
• upgraded MockPageContext to JSP API 2.0 (added getExpressionEvaluator, getVariableResolver, overloaded include)
  
• added "contextOverride" option to ServletContextPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, letting web.xml override local settings
  
• added "searchContextAttributes" option to ServletContextPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, resolving context attributes
  
• added "clear" and "isEmpty" methods to ModelAndView, allowing to clear the view of a given ModelAndView object
  
• added JasperReportsMultiFormatView, allowing to specify the output format dynamically via a discriminator in the model
  
• JSP EL expressions in Spring's JSP tags will be parsed with JSP 2.0 ExpressionEvaluator on JSP 2.0 (Jakarta JSTL else)
  
• changed "spring:transform" tag's "value" attribute from String to Object, to allow for expressions resolved by JSP 2.0
  

We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.4 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release in the 1.1 series.

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features are:

• added LazyInitTargetSource, lazily accessing a singleton from a BeanFactory (lazily initializing on first call)
• added ServiceLocatorFactoryBean, allowing to map custom service locator interface methods to BeanFactory.getBean calls
• reworked ResourcePatternResolver to extend ResourceLoader, for ResourcePatternResolver checks in ResourceLoaderAware
• made BindException serializable, provided that the contained target object is serializable

• added LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy, for lazily fetching JDBC Connections with native JDBC or Hibernate transactions
• added "Sybase-jConnect" to default sql-error-codes.xml file, for database product name "Adaptive Server Enterprise"
• added overloaded "queryForList"/"queryForObject"/"queryForLong"/"queryForInt" methods with arg types to JdbcTemplate
• added "alwaysUseNewSession" flag to HibernateTemplate, enforcing a new Session even in case of a pre-bound Session
• HibernateTemplate proxies exposed Sessions by default, applying query cache settings and transaction timeouts
• added "isConnectFailure(RemoteException)" hook to AbstractRemoteSlsbInvokerInterceptor, for customized failure checks

• added "isConnectFailure(RemoteException)" hook to (Jndi)RmiClientInterceptor, for customized connect failure checks
• added JaxRpcServicePostProcessor interface, intended for reusable custom type mappings etc for a JAX-RPC service
• added "servicePostProcessors" property to LocalJaxRpcServiceFactory and subclasses (incl. JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean)

• added "messageIdEnabled" and "messageTimestampEnabled" properties to JmsTemplate, to disable id/timestamp on producer
• added "pubSubNoLocal" property to JmsTemplate, leading to the NoLocal flag being specified on MessageConsumer creation
• added "receiveSelected" and "receivedSelectedAndConvert" methods to JmsTemplate, accepting JMS message selectors
• added "schedulerListeners", "(global)JobListeners", "(global)TriggerListeners" bean properties to SchedulerFactoryBean
• added "jobListenerNames"/"triggerListenerNames" property to JobDetailBean, CronTriggerBean, SimpleTriggerBean (resp.)

• added ServletContextAttributeFactoryBean, exposing an existing ServletContext attribute for bean references
• added ServletContextAttributeExporter, taking Spring-defined objects and exposing them as ServletContext attributes
• added ServletContextPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, a subclass that falls back to web.xml context-param entries
• added "publishEvents" init-param to FrameworkServlet, allowing to turn off the publishing of RequestHandledEvents
• Spring JSP tags work outside DispatcherServlet too, falling back to root WebApplicationContext and JSTL/request locale

Please see the changelog for details.
Downloads are available through the SourceForge project page

We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.3 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release in the 1.1 series; most importantly, JDK 1.3 compatibility is fully restored.

Among the new features in this release are:

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          <li>added

"setResourceLoader" method to GenericApplicationContext, for overriding the default resource loading strategy

We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.2 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release.
 

Among the new features in this release are

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          <li>added

support for multi-dimensional collections to BeanWrapperImpl (e.g. "map[myKey][0]" or "map[myKey][0].name")

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.1 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release.
 

Among the new features in this release are:

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          <li>&quot;import&quot;

element for XML bean definitions