We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.0 final has just been released.

1. SCOPE

Spring 1.0 is a complete Java/J2EE application framework, covering the following functionality:

• the most sophisticated lightweight container available today, with various flavors of setter and constructor injection
• AOP interception framework based on the AOP Alliance interfaces, integrated with the core container
• JNDI support classes, allowing for easy wiring of Spring-managed beans with JNDI-located objects
• application context concept, providing resource loading and message access abstractions
• …

We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.0 Release Candidate 2 has just been released. RC2 covers all features targeted for 1.0 final, which should be released soon.

Changes since Release Candidate 1 include:

• scheduling support via Quartz and Timer
• support for the SqlMapClient API of iBATIS SQL Maps 2
• JdbcTemplate convenience methods, taking prepared statement arguments as Object array
• support for custom RMI socket factories and additional RMI invocation parameters
• PreferencesPlaceholderConfigurer, resolving placeholders via J2SE 1.4 Preferences
• optional "type" attribute for "constructor-arg" tag in XML bean definitions
• revised BeanFactoryLocator implementations
• simplified AOP Advisor interface hierarchy
• revised DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer implementation hierarchy
• extended mapping configuration options in LocalSessionFactoryBean
• metadata support uses latest Commons Attributes snapshot
• VelocityView supports Velocity Tools 1.1

A full list of changes is included in the the changelog.

The release can be downloaded here

On a side note: after the 1.0 release, we will be focussing on new features, some of which can be found in our JIRA. Please have a look, but note that list is still subject to change. [2004-03-01]