Spring Tutorial Summary
• Spring 2.0 was released in October 2006. Spring 2.5 was released in November 2007.
• In order to upgrade to Spring 2.5, simply replace the Spring 2.0 JAR file with the Spring 2.5 JAR file(s).
• Spring Web MVC is now in a separate spring-webmvc.jar.
• Spring 2.5 now requires JDK 1.4.2 or higher (inclusive of 5 and 6).
• In Spring 2.5, a new autowire annotations can be used to autowire beans together by type without the
“autowire” attribute in the configuration file.
• The JSR-250 specified @Resource annotation can be used on a field or setter method to dependency
inject a Spring container managed bean.
• The @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations offer pre and post processing of dependency
injected beans.
• Several stereotype annotations (@Service, @Controller, @Component) were added (to @Repository)
to mark components in each layer of the application.
• The Spring Web MVC controller has also been given a set of annotations to reduce its XML
configuration in Spring 2.5.
• In Spring 2.5, an additional pointcut discriminator called bean has been added for Spring AOP.
• Load-time weaving of aspects into Spring classes for AspectJ was also added in Spring 2.5 to improve
AOP performance.
• A new Spring TestContext Framework was added in Spring 2.5 to better facilitate framework agnostic
unit testing.
• Spring 2.0 was released in October 2006. Spring 2.5 was released in November 2007.
• In order to upgrade to Spring 2.5, simply replace the Spring 2.0 JAR file with the Spring 2.5 JAR file(s).
• Spring Web MVC is now in a separate spring-webmvc.jar.
• Spring 2.5 now requires JDK 1.4.2 or higher (inclusive of 5 and 6).
• In Spring 2.5, a new autowire annotations can be used to autowire beans together by type without the
“autowire” attribute in the configuration file.
• The JSR-250 specified @Resource annotation can be used on a field or setter method to dependency
inject a Spring container managed bean.
• The @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations offer pre and post processing of dependency
injected beans.
• Several stereotype annotations (@Service, @Controller, @Component) were added (to @Repository)
to mark components in each layer of the application.
• The Spring Web MVC controller has also been given a set of annotations to reduce its XML
configuration in Spring 2.5.
• In Spring 2.5, an additional pointcut discriminator called bean has been added for Spring AOP.
• Load-time weaving of aspects into Spring classes for AspectJ was also added in Spring 2.5 to improve
AOP performance.
• A new Spring TestContext Framework was added in Spring 2.5 to better facilitate framework agnostic
unit testing.
Spring Tutorial Summary
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