Spring Framework 2.1 is turning into Spring Framework 2.5!

After so many Milestone releases of Spring 2.1, Spring Team is going to announce the new version of Spring as Spring Framework 2.5 ! The official announcement of the Final release will be in this October. But according to the Team’s official blog the first release candidate expected for late September itself. The new version contains a bunch of great features…

  • full Java 6 and Java EE 5 support (JDBC 4.0, JTA 1.1, JavaMail 1.4, JAX-WS 2.0, etc)
  • full-featured annotation-driven dependency injection (including support for ‘qualifier’ annotations)
  • support for component scanning in the classpath (autodetecting annotated classes)
  • “beanName” pointcut element in AspectJ pointcut expressions
  • built-in support for for AspectJ load-time weaving (based on Spring’s LoadTimeWeaver abstraction)
  • further XML configuration namespaces (“context”, “jms”) for maximum convenience
  • extended SimpleJdbcTemplate functionality (support for named parameters etc)
  • officially certified WebSphere support (support for the WebSphere 6 UOWManager facility etc)
  • Spring ApplicationContext can be deployed as RAR file (for headless application modules)
  • JCA 1.5 message endpoint management (for Spring-managed JMS and CCI message listeners)
  • completely revised framework for integration tests (with support for JUnit 4 and TestNG)

The Spring era continues… 🙂 For more reference you can follow the official blog of Spring team.

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Acegi Security: Implementing security in your spring applications

Acegi Security is a Java/Java EE framework that provides advanced authentication, authorization and other security features for enterprise applications built using the Spring Framework (Java). This is a powerful, flexible security solution for enterprise software, with a particular emphasis on applications that use Spring. This provides your applications with comprehensive authentication, authorization, instance-based access control, channel security and human user detection capabilities. If you want to read more the please visit these links – Project site, Reference, API docs…

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Hibernate Mapping Types

In every hibernate mapping files, we used to denote the “type” of the mapping variable. This type is actually known as Hibernate mapping types.
These are very much different from SQL database types as well as Java data types. Here you can find a list of Hibernate mapping types.
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Test your Spring – Hibernate Applications using Unitils

Unitils is an open source library aimed at making unit testing easy and maintainable. Unitils builds further on existing libraries like DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with JUnit and TestNG. This article will help you to test Spring- hibernate applications easily using unitles.

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