Spring Framework 1.2 RC1 release

Added some support for JDK50, Hibernate3 support, and JMX support, not knowing how his JMX support is.
Announcement:dear Spring community,  It ' s spring time:-) We are pleased to announce this spring 1.2 RC1 has just bee N released. This release introduces a number of major new features:finer-grained distribution jar files, alongside the full Spring.ja RAOP Alliance interfaces are now contained in Spring-aop.jar and Spring.jar XML Bean definition improvements ("ref" and "V") Alue "Shortcut attributes etc) Improved AOP targetsourcecreator mechanism (supportinglazyinittargetsource too) Transaction annotation support for JDK 1.5+ (annotation called "transactional") improved Weblogicjtatransactionmanager ( Transaction names, isolation levels) SqlRowSet support for JDBC (in conjunction with JdbcTemplate ' s "queryforrowset") hiber Nate3 support (in Orm.hibernate3; Hibernate 2.1 support is still available) JMX support for export of Spring beans as managed resources and for MBean access Commons Attributes and JDK 1.5+ annotations for JMX MBean Exportthis release also contains many minors, for example:factored out bindingerrorprocessor strategy for Servletrequestdatabinder improved Parametermethodnameresolver for Web MVC Multiactioncontroller for a detailed list of enhancements and bugs fixes, the C Hangelog.
This release candidate are already considered stable and recommended use. We expect Spring 1.2 final to is released in late April.watch out for the "Spring Web Flow Preview" to follow later This is week (for use with Spring 1.2)! Web flow would also become part of the nightly builds at this time.
Downloads are available through the SourceForge project page [2005-03-28]