Miscellaneous

•        Spring 2.5 supports many more features that cannot all be covered in sufficient detail here.
•        A few miscellaneous additions to Spring 2.5 are listed below.
•        Spring 2.5 provides support for IBM's WebSphere Application Server’s transaction manager.
•        Spring 2.0 started offering asynchronous JMS support.
•        Some additions to support the JCA style of setting up listeners (versus JMS listeners) was added in
Spring 2.5.
•        Also, a new JMS XML namespace was added to simplify JMS configuration.
•        Spring 2.5 now supports the latest versions of the specified frameworks/APIs below.
•        Tiles 2 (a template framework)
•        JSF 1.2 (Java Server Faces – a Web MVC framework)
•        JAX-WS 2.0/2.1 (the latest Java Web services stack)
•        In addition to many of the other dynamic languages it supports, Spring 2.5 has added support for
JRuby 1.0.
•        The sample applications (PetClinic and PetPortal) provided with the Spring 2.5 download have been
updated to use the newest features
•        The Spring documentation has also been overhauled to reflect the many changes, updates and additions
in Spring 2.x.
•        All of the 2.5 framework JARs are OSGi-compliant bundles to ease usage in OSGi environments.
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