Please give an answer …

Claude.[/quote]

Hi Claude – you're quite right to call us on this. We did say that the M3 release would come in November and didn't deliver. You'll see in my latest post (link below) that M3 has been released today. There are a number of reasons for the delay, but bottom line is that JavaConfig is supported going forward and we're committed to releasing 1.0 as soon as possible. Thanks for speaking up, and your feedback on the new milestone will be most appreciated.

http://blog.springsource.com/main/2008/03/26/spring-java-configuration-whats-new-in-m3/

Rod Johnson (blog author) says:
Added on November 3rd, 2007 at 8:46 pm -Quote

We are taking this project forward. Expect to see an M3 release this month.

Have been long time since… the JavaConfig 1.0M3 was scheduled for November 2007 ! and the 1.0 release was awaited for jan 2008. Seem like JavaConfig have been given a low priority. I think many java developers are really tired about XML pseudo config language. Please release the JavaConfig or declare it out of spring future plans … So, the community can know how to plan their use of the springFramework.
Thanks for the IOC environment, but sorry for the XML, I have tried but can't really endure that … I really prefer to have annotations as first choice java component/bean/service configuration utility and use xml/properties files for user overrid-able parameters.

Please give an answer …

Claude.

Thanks for the great product.

What are your plans for M3 release? I see many cool things are coming (and some api changes). I'd like to use those, but would prefer milestone over the snapshot.

Regards,
-Mike

Here is the rest:

return beanB;
}
}

What I want to do is call beanA() of ConfigA.

great project! I really like the way Spring can be configured with JavaConfig. In my opinion it is difficult to maintain large Spring XML files especially when refactoring and the new annotation configuration of 2.5 puts too much configuration into the code.

The projects I am working on are seperated into modules each having spring configuration files in XML. Some modules depend on other modules and while I was reading the documentation and JIRA issues for JavaConfig I wondered how to configure a BeanB which depends on BeanA (which is configured in a seperate class):


// config of module A
@Configuration
public class ConfigA {
@Bean
public BeanA beanA() {
return new BeanA();
}
}

I came accross the @Import annotation but I can't seem to figure out how to reference a bean configured in an imported config except by calling getBean().

Thank you

I have a question. How can I encrypt, hide the password in jdbc.properties file?

Any suggestions?

Thanks.